What If Women Ran the World?

To: SauronOfMordor

Here is my one word response to the "men-are-warmongers" nags: ABORTION.

121 posted on 04/15/2003 2:00:49 PM PDT by Paul Atreides

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

Not only that because women carry a grudge forever we would still be fighting WW11...

122 posted on 04/15/2003 2:01:05 PM PDT by tubebender (?)

To: SauronOfMordor

No kidding! If women ran the world, it would be a panty-waist police state world of arrests for "offending" someone, and everyone would be required to "pool" their incomes to ensure equality for all.

If I had my way, women wouldn't be allowed to vote, much less hold office.

123 posted on 04/15/2003 2:01:06 PM PDT by Henrietta

To: Reagan Disciple

If women ran the world... there would be massive debts. They would buy a defective weapons system for $300 billion dollars, and claim they saved us money because it was half off it's original price.

Each time we "saved" money, our debt rating would get worse. (((duck)))

124 posted on 04/15/2003 2:01:18 PM PDT by dogbyte12

125 posted on 04/15/2003 2:01:23 PM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine (running and hiding behind the 21st Century version of the Maginot Line is not an option)

To: Psycho_Bunny

What If Women Ran the World? It would be every bit as f***ed-up as it is now.

No, it would be worse. And I, a woman who would like to be empress and I am convinced the world would be better for it, say this. The above article is so full of horse pucky that it would take a long rebuttal. Which I might do later. But take a look at "women's" magazines at the grocery store to see where most women's heads are at. THEM running the world???? Or Hitlery types??? Or Women in Black (like my psycho sister)? Most men are better leaders than most women. There are exceptions - Mrs. Thacker, Condi Rice. People need to be looked at as INDIVIDUALS. Group identity sucks.

126 posted on 04/15/2003 2:01:36 PM PDT by First Amendment

And every time they made a public expenditure, they'd have to show it to you while asking "does this make my butt look fat?"

127 posted on 04/15/2003 2:02:26 PM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine (running and hiding behind the 21st Century version of the Maginot Line is not an option)

To: WaveThatFlag

One word: Hillary

OK, stop the shreiks of horror now...

128 posted on 04/15/2003 2:02:31 PM PDT by 69ConvertibleFirebird (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)

Good one. Or they would buy weapons without knowing that they worked and then leave them in the closet with the tags on since it would be a hassle to return them. And then go out and by more weapons that didn't work.

129 posted on 04/15/2003 2:02:58 PM PDT by Reagan Disciple (He killed the Red Bear without firing a shot)

Wow.

But you still like us, right?

;)

130 posted on 04/15/2003 2:03:49 PM PDT by FeliciaCat

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.

True. Kipling mentioned that in The Young British Soldier:

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When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains

An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.

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131 posted on 04/15/2003 2:03:56 PM PDT by Charles Martel

A majority of men did not vote for Clinton.

A MAJORITY OF MEN DO NOT VOTE, PERIOD.

____Nationwide, there are 9 million more women than men registered to vote

____More women turn out at the polls than men.

____The percentage of women voters voting for Republican candidates this past season (11/2002) increased more than the percentage of male voters voting Republican.

Take Florida for example. Jeb Bush got 49% of the female vote and John Sununu got 46% of the female vote. Given the voter registration and voting turnout disparity between men and women (above), it is probable that each candidate got more female votes than males votes overall. Given that more women voted Republican than in the past, female votes were decisive in Jeb Bush's reelection. The same happened across the country in other races.

Detailed analysis of voting patterns since the last election (11/2002) show that Republicans did better than usual among female voters and about the same among male voters (compared to past elections). The percentage of males voting Republican remained basically constant. But the percentage of females voting Republican increased significantly. This means women voters were a decisive factor in the recent so-called Republican "sweep" in Congress and in governorships. There were also some Republican "sweeps" in state legislatures. Women are decisive in any case because more women vote. Women were decisive for Republicans in the last election for two reasons: 1. the percent increase voting Republican was greater among women and 2. more women vote.

Clearly Republicans should capitalize on their apparent bump in popularity among women if they want the same or better results in 2004. That's not going to happen with attiduses like YOURS which fail to acknowledge women are shifting politically and which keep on beating the same tired old "women voted for Clinton drum".

Clearly it behooves Republicans and Conservatives to recognize women's political strength and include women, rather than to group libel women, insult women, and speak of them in an exclusionary terms only. In other words, Republicans' losses are the Democrats' gain. If Rebublicans were as smart as they think they are, they'd start acting like it in public with regards to women, including on public forums.

132 posted on 04/15/2003 2:03:59 PM PDT by Lorianne

To: Chancellor Palpatine

133 posted on 04/15/2003 2:04:09 PM PDT by reflecting

To: WaveThatFlag

It would be a sure bet that no man, Christian, heterosexual, conservative, Republican, or anyone who has any remote traditional value would be able to join Augusta.

134 posted on 04/15/2003 2:04:44 PM PDT by Paul Atreides

To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant

Are you 12 years old?

135 posted on 04/15/2003 2:04:52 PM PDT by reflecting

To: WaveThatFlag

If women ran the world?? Reminds me of a sketch by The Two Ronnies.

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/comedy/tworonnies.htm

The Worm That Turned was a misogynistic mini-drama within The Two Ronnies, about a world where women had taken over the world (Featuring Diana Dors as a woman Prime Minister - a concept we found laughable at the time!).

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

136 posted on 04/15/2003 2:07:46 PM PDT by widgysoft (< Woo and Yay! >)

To: hispanarepublicana

137 posted on 04/15/2003 2:08:13 PM PDT by ALS

To: Billthedrill

That is perfectly correct. The single biggest reason Bernard Lewis cites for the nearly universal impoverishment of latterday Islamic culture it the disenfranchisement of women. Where these are most able to participate - Turkey, for example - their countries are most wealthy.

This does not necessarily mean that participation of women causes prosperity. It simply may be that societies that repress women are more repressive in other ways as well, and true prosperity would be difficult to achieve in such an atmosphere. The Islamic societies are the perfect example of this.