What If Women Ran This Village Called Earth?

BhagavadGita
BhagavadGita Posts: 1,748
edited October 2009 in A Moving Train
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.... ;)
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  • evenflow
    evenflow Posts: 401
    BhagavadGita wrote:
    I think women have much to bring to the table.... ;)


    I agree, it's called supper!

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  • dunkman
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    BhagavadGita wrote:
    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.... ;)


    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? ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • OutOfBreath
    OutOfBreath Posts: 1,804
    Since I dont believe in any essentialist explanation on the difference in behaviour of the two sexes, AND I believe that power corrupts, then I'm sad to say I dont think it would have been that much different, actually.

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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    BhagavadGita wrote:
    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.... ;)

    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?
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    OutOfBreath wrote:
    Since I dont believe in any essentialist explanation on the difference in behaviour of the two sexes, AND I believe that power corrupts, then I'm sad to say I dont think it would have been that much different, actually.

    Peace
    Dan

    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.
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    We'd spend too much time re-arranging the furniture to get anything else accomplished.
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  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    edited August 2009
    I think we do have some ‘softer’ qualities to mooze people.
    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. ;)
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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    greed is the overriding problem - although, more women in positions of power wouldn't be a bad thing ...
  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    blondieblue227 wrote:
    But most woman will stab another woman in the back in second.

    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.
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  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    blackredyellow wrote:
    blondieblue227 wrote:
    But most woman will stab another woman in the back in second.

    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. :)

    i'm tellin ya, that's why we haven't taken over. i'm sure of it. :mrgreen:
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  • decides2dream
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    blackredyellow wrote:
    blondieblue227 wrote:
    But most woman will stab another woman in the back in second.

    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.


    :mrgreen:
    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.
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  • BhagavadGita
    BhagavadGita Posts: 1,748
    blondieblue227 wrote:
    I think we do have some ‘softer’ qualities to mooze people.
    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 men. ;)

    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.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    decides2dream wrote:
    blackredyellow wrote:
    blondieblue227 wrote:
    But most woman will stab another woman in the back in second.

    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.


    :mrgreen:
    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.

    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.
  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    BhagavadGita
    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!
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    BhagavadGita wrote:
    blondieblue227 wrote:
    I think we do have some ‘softer’ qualities to mooze people.
    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 men. ;)

    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.

    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.
  • Kel Varnsen
    Kel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    The question I have is why aren't women running more things? I mean women make up around 50% of the population so why aren't there more women in government. I mean its not like minorties where they only make up a small portion of the population so it is easy to keep them down, but women make up like half the population. The Canadian house of commons is only 22% women yet there are actually more women in Canada then men.
  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    edited August 2009
    soulsinging wrote:
    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.


    BhagavadGita wrote:
    Some male leaders are the worst back stabbers in the cosmos.

    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.)
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  • soulsinging
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    Kel Varnsen wrote:
    The question I have is why aren't women running more things? I mean women make up around 50% of the population so why aren't there more women in government. I mean its not like minorties where they only make up a small portion of the population so it is easy to keep them down, but women make up like half the population. The Canadian house of commons is only 22% women yet there are actually more women in Canada then men.

    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).
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    i honestly think women are harder to currupt then men ... in my opinion - many who are in positions of power serve an agenda furthered by powerful interests ... it's much easier to corrupt a man into serving this agenda than a woman in general ... although there are the sarah palins of the world ...
  • BhagavadGita
    BhagavadGita Posts: 1,748
    polaris_x wrote:
    i honestly think women are harder to currupt then men ... in my opinion - many who are in positions of power serve an agenda furthered by powerful interests ... it's much easier to corrupt a man into serving this agenda than a woman in general ... although there are the sarah palins of the world ...

    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....

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