Would the world be safer, more peaceful, and more compassionate if women were in power?

Question

We'd actually talk without worring about looking like "wimps" and actually listen to others! We'd actually CARE about people's health, well being, and the safety and well being of children! Right now, the only women in any power are the ones who compromise those basic values in order to "make it" (e.g., Hillary Clinton)!

As I said, exclude those women trying to make it in a "man's world." They can often be just as brutal, sometimes more so.

I think that men can focus on the grunt work and financial planning; while women can focus on diplomacy, domestic issues, and humanitarian efforts.

Answer 1

You are making an awfully big claim to already be making exclusions...

Will these excuses continue after this hypothetical women ruling the world situation becomes reality?

Answer 2

I don't know about that. They would seem to be talking nicely but really be bad mouthing them when their back was turned. I am sorry but as a woman I am embarrassed by how catty and mean we can be for no apparent reason.

Also, lets get real. Someone threatens our "kids" and we are (respectfully so) in fighting mode. Go to a PTA meeting some time when there is a debate. The Dads all look terrified.

Answer 3

It seems it should be but then again it really would depend on what women we are really talking about.

Women have been know to commit hideous crimes including murder of their own children. Would someone like that be good for us? There were women involved in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse. Would those women be good for us? There are plenty of women as idiotic as Bush. Would they be good for us?

Does Condi care about any of the things you mention? I don't think so.

I used to like Hillary but not anymore. She showed her true self since getting on the hill.

So it really depends on the person. And then you have to hope it doesn't give her the big head and she becomes another a**hole.

Answer 4

People are people. The most mean-spirited people that I know in real life are women, not men.

And honestly, do you truly believe that the problems in this country is solely because of this arcane notion of men not wanting to be wimps? Health care isn't there because of HMOs, wars get started for natural resources, children aren't get taken care of because parents have to work, none of which constitutes any sort of "machoism".

Leadership fails due to the fault of the leaders in question, not because of their gender.

Answer 5

You mean women like the ones who got duped and boinked by little billy clinton?

Oh yeah, they'd get politically rolled over and over by all the other power players.

And you think that would be a good thing?

There's precious few women like the Iron lady of England (Margaret Thatcher).

These days the women in gov't are like Hillary Rhodam. Soft in the head and hard on the eyes.
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Answer 6

I've never seen any proof that women were any less violent or criminal or incompetent than men, nor any more compassionate, nurturing and caring than men.

This absurd myth of woman as more caring and peaceful than man is dangerous and false.

Can people ever accept the reality that women are no better than men?

Answer 7

That is what everyone said before women were given the vote in the US. That there would be no more wars, etc., because what mother would send her son to war?

In reality they voted pretty much as their social class and economic advantage, rather than their gender, dictated.

Answer 8

We need a balance of women and men. Right now, the scale is tipped waaaay too heavily towards men...I think in a few hundred years that will change lol. If we don't blow ourselves up first.

Answer 9

See, that's the problem. You just named off at least four things that are none of the Federal Government's business. None of those things have anything to do with what is supposed to be our Constitutional government. Do you hear yourself?

Answer 10

Yes or going to war because of the way other countries leaders look.