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Any world ruled by women described as a utopia would be based on the patriarchal view that women are are all angels without a violent bone in their bodies.

If women were in charge there'd be tea & biscuits at prime ministers question time,

and it would be funnier.

I don't like to divulge my sources as it ruins my argument.

But there's three here, and I've a son and a daughter.
So in the spirit of Blackadder III 16,472 opinions have been registered in the survey.

My son likes Jeremy Kyle and Jerry Springer so I'm a bit worried about him.

Daddelion, what is the ratio of males to females in the house please? Just to get extra technical of course.

In my house we are 50/50 males to females and none of us watch soaps, unless forced to at my mothers house. Dh is the one who remembers all the plots of every soap ever and every character. He also remembers Heartbeat and similar shows very well. Everybody has a talent I suppose...

I've had those conversations.

We didn't have the Internet, we looked things up in books.
A Gig of memory was a dream.

Sunday children's TV was The Waltons and that we it.

They look at me like I'm an old twat, and they're probably right.

Conclusive, Daddelion. You should get that research published.

Soon after getting Sky with it's eleventy billion channels, I said to dd "of course when I was your age we only had three channels, BBC1, BBC2 and ITV. She looked at me and again.

I still don;t think she actually believes me.

I've carried out a survey of the people in my house.

None of the males watch soaps.
All of the females watch soaps.

Number of participants in survey: 3

Anecdotal evidence is proof enough for me.

If I could rule the world, I would change only one thing!

Leave the man with the animals and children and housework for one week a year!

See! Unequivocal, self-reported, undeniable, irrefutable evidence.

I'd not watched Eastenders since the 80s, but my daughter likes it and put it on.
I dutifully moaned all the way through it.

I used to watch Brooky a bit as the ex liked it.
But I do think they're crap. Obviously that's my opinion so worth not a lot.

If woman ruled the world, Mumsnet would become Dadsnet and hordes of fathers would be posting about toilet rolls being hung the wrong way and washing machine service washes. And politics of course.

Oh sorry, would have joined in earlier but I was too busy watching soap operas, reality tv and make over programmes!

Can't believe you 'made' me actually download a pdf on soap-watchers, Daddelion! And a shame it says nothing about gender numbers analysis in toto. Damn.

We wouldn't have time for dads net, too busy cooking or cleaning I suppose.

Pah, what do Ofcom know? Probably run by a man

Dh is obsessed about Eastenders

Love the intro to the report. It's been we'll documented.

So, we'll do it again.

A quick google.

www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/bsc/pdfs/research/soap.pdf

Sorry, that was to Pan

I agree with Hec, I'm not sure the world would be much different. Women are just as capable of falling victim to red mist as men. Maybe a tad less violent.

Childcare would probably be free

I'm starting to daydream politician death-match now. David Blunkett just set his guide dog on Gove with spectacular success. Happy sigh.

How do you know? I know they're commissioned by men who think women want to watch them?

We wouldn't fight other countries, we'd just stop talking to them

and when they asked what they had done we would just say 'nothing' or 'well if you don't know then I'm not telling you'

AND

Valentines day would be compulsory and punishable by removal of all football / rugby / sports for 1 year!

Rom-coms could stay. I like a funny/weepie. Footie would be on a reserved channel. 24 hrs per day. Darts and snooker would be illegal.

Oh yes Hecate a much easier way to sort out impending wars would be to have the heads of state fighting with broadswords at dawn. Suddenly the jaw-jaw not war-war would be v popular.

I'd take Merkel over Cameron any day.

I wonder what the sahm-wohm wars would be like?

What Hecate said. Pretty sure Angela Merckel could take Cameron in a fight

When I rule the world:

I will ban Soap Operas, reality TV, makeover house programmes, day time TV.

Actually with Sky+ On Demand I've an endless supply of Sport, Star Trek, Big Bang, Game of Thrones, The Simpsons etc. so I'll let them stay.