[married21]

There have been viable women-run societies before. Like the Navajos. They tend to be peaceful and last a long time. They also tend not to change or improve. If you want change or improvement, a male-run society can stir things up, invent things, expand empires, etc.. But it is dangerous.

If you want a healthy balance between stability and innovation, try a mutually respectful cooperation between the two. (like a good marriage).

And pray a lot.

[canuck_conservative]

There have been viable women-run societies before. Like the Navajos. They tend to be peaceful and last a long time.

Didn't the Mohawks have a deliberative body with only women leaders that made all the decisions on important matters - like war? I don't think anyone would even remotely describe the Mohawks as "peaceful", they were one of the most militaristic and brutal Indian nations in North America.

[HangnJudge]

If you want a healthy balance between stability and innovation,
try a mutually respectful cooperation between the two.
(like a good marriage).

Bingo

Be Grateful for each Gift and Perspective
And Honor that others are Honorable to Their Gifts

You don't have to understand it
I stay confused all the time, but it works

[kearnyirish2]

Men have run things for thousands of years; anyone who wants to see what happens when women run things need only look at the West over the last 20 years. The Western cultures are disappearing, and the countries are being re-populated by other ancient cultures (from the East) run by men. Maybe the lesson learned is that when men are emasculated the birthrate falls through the floor?

In any case, I regularly see Hindu men walking with their females a few paces behind, Muslim men wrapping their females in burquas, etc.; these are the “replacement Americans”.

[Owl558]

“There have been viable women-run societies before.”

And matriarchal societies can work just fine within their cultural contexts, but the “more peaceful” myth may be exactly that.

Historical examples of women leaders from Catherine the Great to the Tru’ng Sisters to Margaret Thatcher tells us that women leaders are just as capable of fighting wars, stirring thigs up and expanding empires as men. Modern examples of women leaders in business suggests the same. These are only a few examples.

[Tublecane]

There never, ever was any matriarchy anywhere. Certainly not in known history. You have been lied to.

[PapaBear3625]

There have been viable women-run societies before. Like the Navajos. They tend to be peaceful and last a long time. They also tend not to change or improve. If you want change or improvement, a male-run society can stir things up, invent things, expand empires, etc.. But it is dangerous.

A woman-run society tends to de-motivate men. The men's attitude becomes "Fine, you want to run things, go ahead. My buddies and I will be off fishing over there. Have fun". They will have little interest in defending the society, or spending lots of work keeping it going.

What inevitably happens then, is that the first man-run society that comes into contact with the woman-run society will conquer it. Which is why, over history, we tend not to see societies where women rule, or even have major influence over decision-making. The (short term) exception is current Western society, which is in the process of being overrun and taken over.