How do you think the world would be different if woman were the dominant sex from the begining of time?

Question

Do you think this would have a dramatic impact on economics? Trade? Warfare? Would it have benifited the world or destroyed it?

Answer 1

Well, women can be violent and stupid sometimes too. I know this because I am one. :P So I don't think we'd be living in a utopia or something. But emotions would probably be more socially acceptable to express (especially for men). And I don't think women would think they have to wear a ton of makeup and dress up and hurt their feet with high heels, because they wouldn't need to look good to get a man, since he'd probably mostly want her for her power. I'd like to think there'd be more important things than profit and that justice would get done more often because of this, but there's probably a lot of greedy women out there too.

I don't think society would be any better or worse than it is now, just different. And it'd probably make perfect sense to women while all the men sat around going "huh?" :P

Answer 2

This is a very interesting question. As I see it, (I'm male) it would probably not be different at all. In order for women to have been dominant, they would have had to been physically stronger from the earliest times. In order for this to have happened, they would have needed human growth hormone that is rather like testosterone, and therefore would have been male in the first place.
Now, if women ruled the world as it is and as we are right now, it would be a good thing. (tip o' the hat to Joan Aramatrading) I think there would still be a lot of conflict, but we'd have a more compassionate world. Certainly they would not destroy the world.

Answer 3

Well, both genders can become involved in abuse of power. They just tend to go about it in different ways.

The ill effects of men have been seen throughout time. People who are stronger take advantage of the weaker. Wars are fought impersonally, with less regard for all the men who die and more regard for the larger goals in mind and who can win. There can be a real lack of compassion for the sick, dying, hungry, and so forth.

In these cases, women would probably care more about individual people and their feelings and living conditions; they would try harder to resolve conflicts without physical warfare; they would try more for consensus rather than outright political jockeying.

But women have their share of evils. The negative qualities of the Politically Correct movement are the result of the feminine nurturing instinct “gone bad” (i.e., we have to protect everyone’s feelings by controlling what people say, so that no one ever feels bad). Women can squabble and backstab and undermine each other in harsher and more personal ways than men (who take a more impersonal approach) do; those fights are UGLY and usually result in VERY hurt feelings.

So women are more sensible than men in some ways, including, "Let's just work this out and find a solution that helps everyone." But they also tend to be more controlling in relationships, and so in that way would create a real headache of "social rules" that people would find difficult to navigate.

Obviously there are exceptions, but even then they prove the rule – we consider the man to be acting in a more “feminine” way or the woman to be taking a “masculine” approach.

Personally, I just don’t think that a society ruled by women would easily happen – not without men being emasculated to some degree. This says nothing about whether men or women are “better,” it’s just describing the tendency of the man to achieve and find dominance in a situation versus the tendency of women to find consensus and to support each other. His drive pushes him forward. Put another way, men hate feeling powerless and not in charge at some level, whereas it’s not an ego thing for the average female and she is able to often work in consensus. So men more often end up jockeying for power, while women focus more on relating to each other.

Answer 4

Then as a male I could expect to be chauffeur driven everywhere.
-Be brainwashed by TV & Gossip magazines.
-Expect free drinks all night long.
-Watch endless re-runs of FRIENDS, and think it's so unfair, because it's not like real life.
-Think sleeping around, revolting & tacky, unless it was with someone rich or famous.
-Not work for a living and be seen as work shy or a skiver.
-Class models as tramps & sluts because I'm not attractive enough to do it myself.

Women were the dominant sex from the begining of time.
They started in a land that is now known as the desert.

Answer 5

I think that there would be less wars, but also maybe less technological advancement and more arts and things that make like comfortable and beautiful.

Answer 6

Men would be beaten and we would have the underground railroad for battered husbands. Wait, we do already don't we?

Answer 7

i think the world would be a little more sentimental and hard working also i guess it would have been less violent

Answer 8

men would be asking how come they don't make as much as me for the same work.