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- Irene Onyu is a 52 year old woman from Texas, USA.
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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
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abcnews.go.com/Health/story [abcnews.go.com/Health/story]
Envisioning a World Without Men
I found the above link to be very interesting, but there are a few things I would like to address concerning the conclusions drawn about war, prisons, traffic fatalities and a few other things.
While it is true that thus far women have not as a rule waged aggressive war, it must be remembered that there were few times historically where a woman controlled sufficient power to do so. Leaving aside the obvious exceptions such as Catherine of Russia and Elizabeth I of England, or Cleopatra VII of Egypt, there is a dearth of examples where it was in the power of a single woman to command armies to battle. This is becoming much less the case. Women are ascending the ladder of power all around the globe, and it yet remains to be proven that we will not abuse said power as readily as our male counterparts. Are we so much less combative taken as a group? Are we psychologically incapable of embracing violence as a means to an end? From personal experience, I find the suggestion ludicrous.
A 97% drop in prison population? Based upon what fantasy? A societal niche will open and women will be committing the crimes their husbands and boyfriends once did. But leaving that consideration aside for now, I can see a whole raft of new laws specifying now legal activities as illegal being passed. I could be wrong on this, but I find that the women I have known (and I am not excepting myself) are opinionated in the extreme. Given the power to do so, we will enact legislation-solely for the public good!-outlawing things we find offensive. So don't look for the prisons to go out of business.
A drop in traffic fatalities? Possible, just. We do possess measurably faster reflexes and we are not as easily distracted, but we are hardly immune to "road rage." There may be a lessening in the rate of accidental fatalities, but we could see a rise in the level of vehicular homicide. Which of course brings us back to prisons...
A final point: women are in the main conservative. It comes with the territory. We are the nesters and the child-rearers. I do wonder if most of the progress made throughout history has required the dynamic stress of two sexes. In a unisex world, would progress halt, or just continue in other directions? How dreary if everything were allowed to continue just the way it is solely because we like it that way.
Lastly, a lot of fun would go out of life. I know, the unisex world wouldn't know what it was missing, but still. For every jerk I have encountered, there have been several polite gentlemen. For every wife or child beater/murderer, there has been an army of men who would have laid down their lives to prevent said occurrence.
And besides...I like being pampered :)
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