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If women ruled the world...

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InigoTaran · 05/07/2017 11:53

Would it be a better place? Interesting article in The Guardian today with opinions from various prominent women.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/05/what-if-women-ruled-the-world

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DJBaggySmalls · 06/07/2017 08:37

Naomi Alderman's The Power reverses today's dystopia. Women escaping sex trafficking and violence.who are suddenly set free are probably not going to be very nice to their abusers.
The article is talking about a more conservative, political coup.

Few women act like men even when given the chance. You can see that from trolls online, or from DV stats.

ThomasinaCoverly · 06/07/2017 08:27

I suggest Naomi Alderman's The Power for those who think it would be a utopia..

Power corrupts, and some people are vile to start with. I'm not convinced it would be very different.

Holowiwi · 05/07/2017 19:44

Honestly we don't know as the way we live now would be different. It might be better, smilar or worse who knows we can't judge by how we live today.

Generally though power corrupts

BasketOfDeplorables · 05/07/2017 19:01

Yes, Vestal, I think there are several studies that show availability of contraception to women leads to small families regardless of culture and environmental factors.

Makes complete sense when you consider how dangerous pregnancy and birth can be.

VestalVirgin · 05/07/2017 12:36

Haha, will go look at that!

Joke aside, if women had always been free and not oppressed under patriarchy, (a natural state which MRAs would certainly described as women ruling the world) then we would not have an overpopulation problem.

Which would mean most environmental problems we have nowadays would not exist.

We would also not have wars, because without conflict over territories and resources, there's no reason for wars.

Women taking over would need a long time to fix all the problems, but I imagine it would immediately help some.

And Donald Trump would not be president, because his grandfather made his money with brothels, which with free women would not have been possible.

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InigoTaran · 05/07/2017 11:56

This part made me laugh:

First of all, free tampons, legal abortion everywhere, and actual jail sentences given to 100% of rapists instead of the 5% we see today. And hopefully, with the right head-bitch in charge, there would be some kind of limit to how much a man was allowed to interrupt and mansplain.

I imagine we would call it the Law of Sschhh: if a woman says sschhh to a man, he is bound by law to go home and sit down and shut up. Soon, there will be no sexual assault, no catcalling, no mansplaining, no #notallmen.

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InigoTaran · 05/07/2017 11:53

Click link!

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/05/what-if-women-ruled-the-world

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