If Women Ruled the World

[Dr. Haight]

What would life be like, at present, if women ruled the world?


Would world politics be different? How would past events have evolved if women had always controlled every society from the beginning of history? Would it be better or worse? If so, how so; if not, why not?

You get the point.

Personally, I think it would be a better place. In what ways? I don't know exactly, hence this thread.

[attila_the_hunny]

I don't think we'd have as many wars.

[Shimpei]

Read "The Virility Factor" by Robert Merle.

[PiccoloNamek]

It would be like that creepy episode of sliders where all of the men were kept in prisons and used only for breeding purposes.

[INTrePid]

I don't think we'd have as many wars.
I agree. This is probably the only good thing that would be different. Nothing would ever get done. The country's deficit would probably be a lot worse. The military would probably be very weak. Businesses would not be as strong.

[INTrePid]

It would be like that creepy episode of sliders where all of the men were kept in prisons and used only for breeding purposes.
Don't give people ideas or anything. :devil:

[Nemesis]

"People who think that 'if women ruled the world, things would be different,' must not remember high school"
-Madeline Albright

[s0978]

What would life be like, at present, if women ruled the world?
They already do, silly.

[venerationOFrabbits]

"People who think that 'if women ruled the world, things would be different,' must not remember high school"
-Madeline Albright

This post has a redeeming quality.

(Note to Self -- Add 2 points to the Nemesis log entry)

[Google Monster]

Men will only be allowed to pursue jobs that require hard labor or servitude. While underground they will be doing research on genes and being able to determine the X and Y chromosomes. Once they achieve impregnating a women without the need of a man's semen and have enough AI laborers to do the heavy work, men will be wiped from the face of the earth.

[rivercrow]

"Ruler" and "ruled" suggest a binary view of life--implying a "winner" and a "loser."

Let's step outside the realm of either/or and embrace cooperation and plurality of experience.

[Fingers]

Do any of the English people remember the two ronnies sketch when women ran the world and men stayed home and cooked while wearing women?s clothes.. it was called The Worm That Turned


It was a fairytale world where men were made to wear dresses, whilst the women walked around in leather shorts, thigh length boots and peaked caps and did the dominatrix thing - A mixture of reactionary political polemic and male sexual fantasy.

I found it scarily cool haha

[distraction tactics]

Given how some women can go from 0 to Bitch in under two seconds on their server or waitress, things probably wouldn't be much different.

[dunee]

'm not sure it would be that different.

Women in the past resorted to clandestine activities like poisonings and other things partly because it was less threatening to the male status quo, partly because it was seen as "unwomanly" and/or the current morals did not take into account women's rights. But in a woman dominated society that had not been exposed to prior patriarchal attitudes, backstabbing might just be more visible and calling out publicly or even war would happen at the same rate as currently.

There would definitely be more childcare services and such offered at workplaces.

Perhaps fashion might be a male dominated consumer industry. Instead of outlets being 50% women's clothing, 30% kids, 20% men's, it might be 50% men's clothes, 20% women's (if not roughly equally distributed).

I'm trying to think what might replace things like sports though... soccer and such would still exist, but it might not be something entire countries would stop work for.

[Ferrus]

I don't think we'd have as many wars.
Politics would just involve more bitching and snide comments, yawn.

[shum]

What would life be like, at present, if women ruled the world?


Would world politics be different? How would past events have evolved if women had always controlled every society from the beginning of history? Would it be better or worse? If so, how so; if not, why not?

You get the point.

Personally, I think it would be a better place. In what ways? I don't know exactly, hence this thread.

that is a dumb thing to say. why are you saying it? the better place thing.

maybe it is not about sexuality but about corruption of power.
but why is it men in power now?

i think it is because of that bastard jesus. afterall it is because of him that we have milleniums and such even though it makes no sense. (i have been reading a book on my lunch break. so hard as i only have 30 minutes and i stillhave to shmooze these people for half of it).

anyway i dont want to rule the world. i want a man to do it the way i want it to be done.

[C.J.Woolf]

Politics would just involve more bitching and snide comments, yawn.
More than the House of Commons already has? :D

[macr0]

"Ruler" and "ruled" suggest a binary view of life--implying a "winner" and a "loser."

Let's step outside the realm of either/or and embrace cooperation and plurality of experience.

agreed.

[ApeTheDog]

A group of women can't make decisions - not because individual members aren't capable of doing this, but because all the other women simply won't allow it. And there would be outcasts - social pariahs. Every group of women seems to need a black sheep.

Thus, the world would be a chaotic place where nothing gets done at all, and loads of people would become bitter.

On the plus side, since nothing would get done, nothing bad would get done either. There wouldn't be any wars, and there would probably be a very good social security system.