but i wo n't go there on account of my sister , veronica , who says i need to stop thinking of women as sex objects and start thinking of them as future partners in the inevitable struggle to survive in postapocalyptic america ( which veronica 's writing her senior thesis on because she feels the apocalypse is going to occur sometime in the next decade , due to the country 's current state of religious fanaticism and environmental recklessness , both of which were present at the fall of rome and various other societies that no longer exist ) .