What If Women Ran the World?

BusinessWeek ^ | Tue Apr 15, 2003 | Thane Peterson

[FirstTomato]

Societies which cling to caste systems of any sort are NOT as prosperous as those who have eliminated caste systems

What about India? An extremely prosperous nation, yet one of the most discrimatory on Earth, with incredible social and gender problems.

[squarebarb]

H.L. Hunt initially got his money by starting out with some oil wells in Arkansas in the 20's and then brought in a well in the giant East Texas field in 1930, the Lou Della Crim, which was a gusher. He then began to go into pipelines in East Texas to move the oil out of the immense field and continued to drill in East Texas. He won a lot of money gambling as well. I believe his sons were the ones that got into silver. But they had East Texas oil money behind them. They diversified into a lot of companies around oil production. They were hard-driving men and adventurous, true gamblers and wildcatters. This bimbo must have missed out on the good DNA. I think a world run by women is a.)impossible because you would have to subdue the men by force and the only people to do that would be men. Which means the women leaders would only be puppets. Think of Eva Braun. No thanks.

[Rodney King]

Nordic countries lead the trend. Women hold 45.3% of the seats in Parliament in Sweden, 38% in Denmark, 37.5% in Finland, and 36.4% in Norway, according to the IPU.

That's because they are hot and men like to vote for hot chicks.

[Lorianne]

Sounds idyllic. But the devil is truly in the details. Who determines "force", "threat of force" or "fraud" ? Who arbitrates any supposed transgressions?

The answer to the question Who decides? is the great bugaboo to liberty. Always has been. The person or persons charged with (or self deputizing themselves with) arbitration of such matters have the true power.

[Malsua]

Remember it was Pauline Nyiramasuhuko who encouraged the men to rape the women in Rwanda.

[squarebarb]

And I forgot to say, per George Will, it's women duty to civilize men. Make them keep their peckers in their pants, be a daddy to their children, and kneel down to be knighted. So there.

[in the Arena]

The "Givers of Pain and Delight":

Bingo...

[Post Toasties]

What really irked me about the high level of female support for x42 throughout most of his two terms is that even as he paid lip service to the so-called 'progressive' woman's agenda, he showed the world that he was and remained a sexual criminal in office, in the process entirely discrediting feminism, abetted by its 'leaders' who showed that LW power politics was their real game. The extreme level of hypocrisy by x42 and his female supporters throughout all of that (particularly after the Clarence Thomas lynching) has gone a great way toward making me skeptical of the political honesty of those similarly inclined, on that basis alone (Not that there aren't plenty of others).

[slimer]

What If Women Ran the World?

Women do run the world - they run shopping errands, run to answer the phone and door, they run the kids to school and run home to fix dinner, they run to the dry cleaners and grocery store. Women have always run the world.

The question should be, how can we get them to run a little faster?...hey honey, get me another beer please.

[FirstTomato]

(mabelkitty said) Name one Republican who said women shouldn't vote?

(Lorianne said) There are plenty on this very site! Furthermore there are many websites devoted to repealing the 19th Ammendment

Lorianne, Why would you deliberately troll like this, and deliberately lie? I did my research to try to substantiate what you said, and found nothing. There is no support of what you say at all. The question, are you a troll? From DU? What's your angle that you would try to push such a lie? You sound just like another man-hater to me. Go back to your NOW meeting, I suppose they're back from their Augusta pprotest by now.

[Lorianne]

Well I've been to India and I would not describe them as "prosperous" on par with the USA. If you want to classify them as "prosperous" that's fine but prosperous relative to who?. I've already made a point of saying "prosperous" is relative. Relative to the USA and other Western countries, I don't consider India as prosperous. Large percentages of their population live in abject poverty at a level unimaginable to Western citizens. The poorest homeless person in the USA lives much better than vast swaths of their population.

As India slowly (and I mean at a glacial pace) moves away from caste systems, the more prosperous the country becomes in terms of more people at a standard of living that I would call "prosperous".

[Iwo Jima]

Toilet seats would be spring loaded so men would have to hold them up with one hand while they pissed.

No, toilet seats would be welded down.

[The Grammarian]

The only Biz Mag that is a real fan of Capitalism is Forbes.

I'd consider The Wall Street Journal to be the same way.

[Lorianne]

I don't know how you "substantiate" things but you're just plain wrong. There have been whole threads here devoted to the idea of rescinding the right to vote for women here at FR. (There are others who have separate websites promoting such). Furthermore, there have been lots of individual posts in other topics from FR posters which say the same thing. Mabelkitty acknowledges she has made such a case.

Your post is ridiculous. These people are the extremet fringe. Nowhere have I said they represent the majority view of Conservatives or Republicans, or even men.

PS. Get a clue.

[The Grammarian]

If women ran the world we'd be in a hell worse than dealing with the french. Women are reactionary based on emotion. That's how we ended up with a Clinton as potus. He was cute. Now apply that to foreign policy and imagine the disaster.

Don't forget that some ditzes were saying Algore had a nice "package" back in 2000.

[FirstTomato]

the highest percentage of working mothers are all conservative midwestern states

cite a credible source, please.

[William Terrell]

Three words.

P M S

[Nephi]

Lorianne is going to kick your bundinghah.

[goodnesswins]

Hey....I'm one of those who would gladly give up the 19th amendment if ALL women did....and I've said so on this forum. Too many women "feel" instead of "thinking." NOW, I never said they "shouldn't vote" when they have the right, though. (But, I'd sure like a lot more to vote conservative and with their BRAINS, not their Uteruses.)