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In reply to the discussion: What would society look like if men were not in charge? [View all]one_voice
(20,043 posts)44. I agree with all this...
Better health care.
Rapists would actually get punished, finally. Rape would be a serious crime and taken seriously. No more she was asking for it, she wore revealing clothing, she deserved it for being a lesbian (in my case that was what I was told).
Children would actually be fed instead of only fought for when they are in the womb and left to go hungry once they are born and pretty much get ignored while they suffer the ravages of domestic abuse and violence.
Speaking of, domestic abuse would be considered a crime and actually be punishable by law in all 50 states instead of permitted once a week or on Sundays like in some states. There are laws like that still on the books. Even in states that do not have laws like that, and where there is supposedly a law against it, women are still made to feel like pure shit if they dare try to press charges against the man. So, that shit would be stopped and if the male cops didn't enforce the laws protecting women, they'd be replaced.
Rapists would actually get punished, finally. Rape would be a serious crime and taken seriously. No more she was asking for it, she wore revealing clothing, she deserved it for being a lesbian (in my case that was what I was told).
Children would actually be fed instead of only fought for when they are in the womb and left to go hungry once they are born and pretty much get ignored while they suffer the ravages of domestic abuse and violence.
Speaking of, domestic abuse would be considered a crime and actually be punishable by law in all 50 states instead of permitted once a week or on Sundays like in some states. There are laws like that still on the books. Even in states that do not have laws like that, and where there is supposedly a law against it, women are still made to feel like pure shit if they dare try to press charges against the man. So, that shit would be stopped and if the male cops didn't enforce the laws protecting women, they'd be replaced.
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I see where you are coming from - but many of our values are gendered, which makes this discussion
el_bryanto
May 2014
#4
Right, but if women were "in charge," would gentleness still be seen as a feminine value?
Brickbat
May 2014
#8
That sorta depends. Are the 75% mostly Michelle Bachmann or Elizabeth Warren? -nt
Liberal Veteran
May 2014
#2
Scandinavia has also had a history of women staying at home for months while most men were gone.
haele
May 2014
#39
The Iroquois, from whom we got the Senate and House representation system was mostly matriarchal
KurtNYC
May 2014
#31
What immediately comes to my mind is - the whole idea of empathy would not be sneered at so readily.
calimary
May 2014
#24
Not like this. But a good read, anyway, is Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
ancianita
May 2014
#54