What If Women Ran This Village Called Earth?
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found this on the net...
"It is getting harder to escape the sense that most of the trouble in the world – whether it's coming out of the Senate, a mortgage lender, or a tank turret – can be traced to one overriding problem: too many men steering. Had our economic, domestic, and foreign policy been more informed by women, we might be enjoying a safer ride?"
Would the world be a softer place with more woman at the wheel? In tribal cultures, women ran the village while the man were away doing the physical work, obtaining food.
I think women have much to bring to the table....
"It is getting harder to escape the sense that most of the trouble in the world – whether it's coming out of the Senate, a mortgage lender, or a tank turret – can be traced to one overriding problem: too many men steering. Had our economic, domestic, and foreign policy been more informed by women, we might be enjoying a safer ride?"
Would the world be a softer place with more woman at the wheel? In tribal cultures, women ran the village while the man were away doing the physical work, obtaining food.
I think women have much to bring to the table....
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I agree, it's called supper!
Oh snap, someone had to go there
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and in these tribal villages the women have to walk 6 miles every day for clean water... and yet its never occurred to them to relocate 5.9 miles further towards the water source?
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"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965
The flipside is that we probably wouldn't have survived the Cold War. It's easy for women to think they'd be a softening influence on things, but ask any man who's lived with one how peaceful things are around the house for those few days at the end of the month... you can't blow up on a nuclear armed enemy because you can't control your hormones and are feeling "bloated and emotional." I can see more wars because women in charge were feeling super sensitive one day and Russia was being a total bitch and who the hell does Russia think it is?
That's absurd to think there are no differences in the behaviors of the sexes. We're built different and function different and respond to phenomena different.
for the least they could possibly do
I do think we go about things smarter.
But most woman will stab another woman in the back in second.
And that my dear, is why I think men rule the world instead of women.
From my experiences with female bosses this is absolutely true... Women seem to have much more trouble with a women telling them what to do than men do. Maybe it's because most of us get told what to do by our wives all the time anyway.
Like said before - greed/power corrupts people, I don't see things being a whole lot different if women were in charge of the world.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
i'm tellin ya, that's why we haven't taken over. i'm sure of it.
that made me laugh.
i agree that greed and power corrupt, and that essentially, things wouldn't be all that different with women in charge as opposed to men. men and women ARE different, but i don't think we are THAT diffierent that it would change the world all that much.
and sure, we can joke about all the gender differences, etc....but there ARe women in power, along with men, right now. sure, one can argue we are operating in a patriarchal society and all.....but even if it were matriarchal, again, i just don't invision such a vastly different world. i think a LOT more than WHO is in power would have to change, as in HOW we live our lives, run our societies, etc for any major changes to occur.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Women are intuitive creatures and I do believe we are as smart as men, but one thing troubles me...
I don't understand the back stabbing?
I've never been back stabbed by a woman.
What for?
A man?
Once you've got one, where is there a need to backstab?
Some male leaders are the worst back stabbers in the cosmos.
This is true. I'm not saying women should be kept out of government, but a woman-dominated society is not going to be any healthier than a male-dominated one. Balance is key... the differences between men and women generally complement each other, and so having both perspectives well represented at all levels is a good thing to balance out the excesses/blind spots of both.
I can’t really explain it. I can’t think of a situation of the top of my head.
What I’m saying is women get in each others way before we’ll help each other.
Not all women, but I’ve seen a lot of situations. ………I just can’t name any. Lol!
What if you haven't got one?
But I don't think it's just about men. My gf works in an almost all female (plus a few gay men) workplace and I hear horror stories daily... just general cattiness. Lots of gossip. They all tear up whoever's not there, then once that person shows up they're best friends and tear up the one who just left together. Eventually it gets around and people get hurt. Men do it too occasionally, but not as much. And I don't think it's a cruelty thing with women, I think it's just venting and blowing off steam. But guys will typically shrug that stuff off. You have a fight with a good friend, walk away, and an hour later you're having a beer together and it's all forgiven once it's happened. It seems women hold onto that stuff more, so instead of venting and then moving on, people vent and then let it poison the atmosphere with hurt feelings.
this is true. that's kind of what my point was.
men are more black&white with the ladies it's all different shades. and some ladies are grudge holders.
It’s just a different atmosphere in a room full of women. I find myself on alert or uptight if I’m surrounded by other women. As if they might use anything I do and say against me at some point later down the road.
I find am able to be myself in a room full of guys thou.
But maybe that’s just me.
I just feel like guys couldn’t careless and that takes the pressure off.
i get what you're saying.
i mean women will do it on a more personal level.
Some women are very critical of other women to the point of being counter productive to the women’s movement.
(I not crazy about using the term women’s movement but oh well.)
I remember one big push the US made when setting up Iraq's government was that they needed to guarantee women a certain number of seats... a number greater than any US legislative body has ever had in our history. We've had... 3 women SC justices? How many senators and reps now? 10% at best maybe.
I think a large part of it that most of our country is rural and old fashioned, so in the House of Reps, a lot of the districts just aren't really going to have women running in the first place. I also suspect women are more involved locally where they can work with people or see the results before them as opposed to just numbers on data sheets. In addition, I suspect that after job and family (since even when both parents work women bear a far greater share of housework and childcare), there's little time for women to embark on a political career, and if a woman doesn't have a job or family, it's going to hurt her candidacy by leaving her vulnerable to accusations of inexperience or the dreaded "mannish woman" accusations (because a woman that isn't obsessed with kids is too weird for middle America).
Well said.
I also believe that since women give birth, which men will never understand, we are less likely to kill other women's children in war. Even if you are a woman who does not have children....women are care takers. I don't see a woman building the atom bomb either.
We also don't build giant buildings shaped like the penis to have them knocked over to stand up and rebuild them all over again. Sorry off topic....
"It's a man's world" James Brown
Looks like someones had bad experiences with women?
To be honest there are good and bad women and men. Having Margaret Thatcher as our Prime Minister didn't do us any favours - look at the trouble we got in. Surely acknowledging equality between the sexes and having a mixed sex government is the best idea for everybody?
Must go, got to make the tea, do the ironing, vacuumn the living room and then I'd better start on redecorating the bedroom, all this as well as being a mother, sex goddess (for my husband), and keeper of the hamsters.
Women rule, the men just don’t know it.
And
Behind every successful man there’s a surprised women.
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stabbed in the back was a bad term. I didn’t mean that literally. I hope I’ve explained myself on that one.
Agreed!
I’m by no means a pro, I’m still learning.
It’s a fine art.
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Gotta love the birth card. And I have to laugh every time I hear about how tall buildings have some relation to male penises... I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that there's limited space in urban areas and if you want more offices and housing to fit, you have to build up, not sideways. Is every sprawling or curved building some expression of women's vaginas?
Also love that you can say those things but if I said women were sensitive caretakers I'd be labeled a sexist and accused of wanting women to stay docile and be homemakers.
Act like men how?
How many female loggers have you met?
Woman are not in power because men are physically stronger than woman. Period.
i argee. that's part of it too. but not the only reason. IMO.
it def started out that way in the caveman days and it was built upon thoughout the years. but we've slowly seen a change in females/society.