What If Women Ran the World?

BusinessWeek ^ | Tue Apr 15, 2003 | Thane Peterson

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I have no problem with a woman President, any woman named Condolezza will do.

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[SauronOfMordor]

Women make up a majority of US voters. They disproportionately voted for Bill Clinton. 'nuff said.

[Illbay]

Among the more savage societies in the history of the world, such as the Plains Indians of North America, the men do the fighting, then bring the captives--men, women and children--back to camp.

The women are in charge of the hideous and neverending torture of the captives.

Sweet ladies.

[Mr. Jeeves]

You forgot the barf alert.

[Interesting Times]

You'd think a magazine purporting to cover the business world would be ashamed to publish this sort of bigoted yammering.

[Anamensis]

If women ran the world, instead of a war every 20 years, there'd be a war every month.

[kidd]

If women ran the world?

There would be some real hideous wars about once a month.

[Blueflag]

I thought that women are not intrinsicly different than men in any given non-biological role, and thus ANY gender bias is wrong?

[hispanarepublicana]

If women ran the world, those little baskets of free starlight mints that typically sit by the door of most restaurants would be baskets of chocolate kisses instead.

[Psycho_Bunny]

What If Women Ran the World?

It would be every bit as f***ed-up as it is now.

[smadurski]

You mean to tell me that women don't rule the world?

[dead]

There'd be alot more crying at the UN.

I mean crying by people who aren't French.

[Paul C. Jesup]

If women ran the world then chances are we would be AT WAR CONSTANTLY because usually when two or more women are good friends and then have a falling out, they become bitter enemies to the point they cannot be in the same room together (I am not kidding here). At least with men, even when they are enemies, they can at least control themselves enough to be able to talk to each other.

[Centurion2000]

If women ran the world, there'd be no war ... jsut VERY TENSE negotiations every 28 days.

If women ran the world, weapons wouldn't kill you, they'd just make you feel bad for a while.

[Bigg Red]

You forgot the "barf alert"! Who is this girly man who wrote this?

Agree on your Condi comment.

[HitmanLV]

But in my experience, women tend to pursue conciliation and cooperation long after men would have been at each other's throats.

Well, the author certainly hasn't met many of the women in my life...

[goodnesswins]

"I'm convinced that boys and girls are different."

"What we found is that there were some extraordinary strengths among these women that would be very useful in trying to avert or stop violent conflicts. The women were bridging the divide. They tended to not see the person on the other side as the demon. They would often talk about how, "We're all mothers, and as mothers we understand each other." One of the sayings was, "As mothers, we cry the same tears." Boy...that would have really helped and worked with Saddam and his sons, wouldn't it?

By the way, where did these Hunt's get there money? (silver?)

[OldFriend]

Any woman like Katie Couric, Madama Halfbright, Helen Thomas, Judy Woofwoof????????

HEAVEN FORBID

[Right Wing Professor]

New York Times Magazine September 15, 2002, Sunday

A Woman's Work

By Peter Landesman (NYT) 8611 words

Late Edition - Final , Section 6 , Page 82 , Column 1

ABSTRACT - Peter Landesman article on Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, one of first Rwandan women to rise to level of prominence in Rwanda, serving as Rwanda's minister for women's affairs at time of 1994 war, and now first woman ever on trial for genocide; she is accused of inciting Hutus to rape thousands of female Tutsi refugees, goading Hutu marauders by saying, 'before you kill the women, you need to rape them';.

Slaughter, and then worse, came to Butare, a sleepy, sun-bleached Rwandan town, in the spring of 1994. Hutu death squads armed with machetes and nail-studded clubs had deployed throughout the countryside, killing, looting and burning. Roadblocks had been set up to cull fleeing Tutsis. By the third week of April, as the Rwanda genocide was reaching its peak intensity, tens of thousands of corpses were rotting in the streets of Kigali, the country's capital. Butare, a stronghold of Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus that had resisted the government's orders for genocide, was the next target. Its residents could hear gunfire from the hills in the west; at night they watched the firelight of torched nearby villages. Armed Hutus soon gathered on the edges of town, but Butare's panicked citizens defended its borders.

Enraged by Butare's revolt, Rwanda's interim government dispatched Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, the national minister of family and women's affairs, from Kigali on a mission. Before becoming one of the most powerful women in Rwanda's government, Pauline -- as everyone, enemy and ally alike, called her -- had grown up on a small farming commune just outside Butare. She was a local success story, known to some as Butare's favorite daughter. Her return would have a persuasive resonance there.