What If Women Ran the World?

BusinessWeek ^ | Tue Apr 15, 2003 | Thane Peterson

[SierraWasp]

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

"The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world!"

The writer of this article is so a part of the "Gelded Generation!" (especially with his playground analogy)

Didn't he also write: "All I Ever Needed To Know, I Learned In Kindergarten"?

[Sam Cree]

"Not necessarily."

I am glad to be wrong on that, actually, come to think of it, my 20 year old (beautiful) daughter votes conservatively and has no use for political correctness.

I definitely agree that Hillary hides her true (leftist) agenda, but for that matter, so do many Democrats, including the "feminists, anti war folk, environmentalists, etc."

[Lorianne]

Either the unwed birth rate is high OR the abortion rate is high. Choose your poison, I guess. Personally, I'd like to see the unmarried CONCEPTION rate decline, and by all accounts it is declining, albeit slowly. In the interim, I'll take live children over dead ones, any day.

And once born, someone has to support children. They can't support themselves. The chart didn't say whether the working moms were unmarried, married, divorced, widowed, etc. It just indicated what percentage of mothers of young children worked. It would be interesting to see the breakdown on marriage and working moms by state.

[lilylangtree]

"successful Western woman in government"

Since you didn't ask for how many, I'll give a few: Jennifer Dunn of WA; Liddy Dole of SC; Condolezza Rice; Hitlery Clintoon, Nancy "Pube" Pelosi. Now, you name me successful women in the governments of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Libya, pre-war Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt, and any other islamic state?

[RipSawyer]

"Unfortunately, I think most women leaders, particularly the liberal variety, would make decisions based on feelings, not thought."

I once tried to explain to my first wife the difference between thoughts and emotions and I finally gave up trying. She was convinced that emotions were thoughts and no amount of reasoning would persuade her otherwise.

[JoeSchem]

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

Odd, my experience is that women frequently fly off the handle at imagined slights, and retaliate viciously for years afterward, rebuffing reconciliation after reconciliation.

When was the last time you heard a woman apologize? And I mean, sincerely apologize -- not, "I'm sorry you feel that way."

If women ran the world, The Button would have been pushed a long time ago. That they have 51% of the vote is frightening enough. Women are why an emotionally crippled, philandering perjurer from Arkansas was President of the United States for eight years. Remember Janet Reno -- rolling the tanks at Waco, sending in machine guns to 'rescue' Elian? Enough said!

[JoeSchem]

She was convinced that emotions were thoughts and no amount of reasoning would persuade her otherwise.

For her, emotions and thoughts were the same thing, so in a sense, she was right.

[LibertarianLiz]

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...

I'm with you here. I can't remember working at any office or other place where there weren't catty women picking sides, choosing the "in" group. And it never ends. I'm nearing fifty and I still see this with women my own age. I mean, how long do you have to be out of high school before women grow up?

[waterstraat]

I really dont see anything changing in the foreseeable future.

Men still will continue to make all the "BIG" decisions: who they will vote for for president, what the families policy should be towards red china, what job the husband will get to pay all the bills, what new car to buy the wife, etc.

Women will still make all the "little" decions: what everyone will eat every day, what clothes everyone in the family will wear, whether or not to get married or have kids, how many kids, what schools the kids will go to, what church they will attend, what house to buy and live in, where we will go on vacation each year, what presents to give out, what movie to go see, what restaruant to go to, what furnature to buy and how to arrange it, how the house is landscaped and what deck for the man to put up, what stove and refidgerator and washer and dryier and dishwasher for the husband to buy, when if and what kind of sex, etc.

[Vigilanteman]

Would U.S. troops be in Iraq today if, say, Hillary Clinton (news - web sites) were President, and not George W. Bush?

No, but Iraqi troops might be in the U.S.

[waterstraat]

The US did not give women the vote until 1920, and the US was the most prosperous country in the world at the time.

No. Women got the vote in the 1850's, 1860's, 1870's, 1880's, and in some of the original states- even sooner, Kansas, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Dakotas, etc. By 1920, women had the vote in nearly half of the states for all types of elections.

[Lady Eileen]

No, but Iraqi troops might be in the U.S.

.......good point.

[boris]

Why Men Rule

[<1/1,000,000th%]

You mean women don't run the world???

[Billthedrill]

The US did not give women the vote until 1920...

On a national basis, no. On a state basis - Wyoming, for example - yes. But women in the culture as a whole were participating at a level quite inadmissible in Moslem culture. Annie Oakley, Dolly Madison, Calamity Jane, Molly Pitcher...these women were not enfranchised but they certainly were empowered. There is a difference, and the Moslems need to learn it or forfeit the creativity of half of the human race.

[nutmeg]

read later bump

[WaveThatFlag]

Does thith man thpeak with a lithp?

Why is it ok for a liberal base an entire story on generalizations, but if a conservative employs a small stereotype to make a point he's a homophobic nazi?

[WaveThatFlag]

No, she did it because a divorced woman would not get elected to a higher office, let alone President, of a Christian-based country.

Twenty years ago conservatives voted for Ronald Reagan in droves.

[Consort]

Marriage would become obsolete, replaced by the gigolo factor. Socialism would prevail. Lesbians would hold all positions of power. Petite women would become toys for both sexes. Gay men will be eliminated as rivals. Weak men will fill all pink collar and domestic jobs. Snakes, spiders, and mice will be eradicated. After that, it gets serious. Everyone will have to say "Oh My God" when surprised.

[mabelkitty]

I don't appreciate you comparing my statements with those of "complete nuts" who debate the right of women to vote.

I never stated I wanted to repeal the 19th Amendment. I stated that any woman who is existing or at least subsidized by tax-funded social programs should not be allowed to vote, as they are voting for a substitute husband/father-state to support their bad choices.

Therefore, my vote, a person who contributes to society and the Treasury, has about as much weight as an uneducated teen mother with two children. However, she votes for more aid, while I vote for stronger borders and military.

Why don't you read my reasoned arguments concering women who vote before you spout off your cakehole.