Most of my friends are female and I do think women are often more
rational and balanced than men, but there is one belief which I think
is certainly wrong: If women were to rule the world, it would not be
a more peaceful or friendly place...
Women are so peaceful
Women work together
All women are a sisters
Feminist fairy tales
Look at your history!
At queens and empresses
Who drowned concubines
Who chopped off peasants' heads
Believe your chauvinist myth
Blame all evil on men
Elect a female lord
See how much blood she'll shed
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One Very Angry Man from Holland!
Written by Josie (2780 comments posted) 13th October 2007 |
| Heavens! So much pent up rage about we women! Another load off your chest Fledermaus, ha ha. Well said. You tell them. (by the way: off - not of). |
HI Fledermaus
Written by jean.day (2266 comments posted) 13th October 2007 |
| I think the idea that a woman was necessarily more peaceful was scotched by having Mrs. Thatcher in charge. She was as war like as any man. |
Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3331 comments posted) 14th October 2007 |
With views like that I'm surprised you have any female friends at all.
BTW following someone home and watching through the window doesn't qualify as friendship.
It's as well to know
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Written by Fledermaus (3248 comments posted) 14th October 2007 |
Josie, Jean and BBS.
I expected this to be misinterpreted. Hence the title. It reads like a very male-chauvinist piece indeed.
The thing is I am not anti-woman or anti-feminist. In fact I think men could learn a lot of positive things from women and I certainly dislike machismo.
Yet let's also be realistic: Women may be better at certain things than men, but they are not superior. History is full of examples of female leaders who excelled in cruelty. Also full of male leaders who did so, but there seems to be a strange idea with some groups that women are better than men, which I supose is disproved by history. They're just the same.
Just as many women probably don't dislike all men, but hate the 'male chauvinist pig' (which I myself don't like either), I don't dislike women, but I do dislike the 'female chauvinist pig'.
So Josie, this is not rage against women, but against the idea that they are morally superior.
Jean, you got what I meant.
BBS, Should I actually even comment on that?  |
Written by Phil (6683 comments posted) 14th October 2007 |
I think you're probably right Fledermaus - although men and women are very different, I don't think there'd be a great deal of change. Different does not always mean better. I'm not sure using Thatcher as an example is valid though - she wasn't even human.
Phil. |
All is forgiven dear Fledermaus
Written by Josie (2780 comments posted) 14th October 2007 |
| Don't take my words seriously. I know from what you write that you haven't got it in for women. Actually, what you say is so right. Maggie Thatcher didn't do one thing for the women of this country (or for the men either) - and if our Queen was anything like Queen Elizabeth I, there might be more head chopping and less locking up in prison. Quite right and well put! You knew you'd draw the women out with this poem!!! ha ha |
Well,
Written by audrie (451 comments posted) 14th October 2007 |
best not to get into politics but when we were the sick old country of Europe, Maggie Thatcher pulled us up by our bootstraps and made us into a power to be recognised again.
She bested the unions who had brought this country to 'The Winter of Discontent' and got them under control.
During the winter of discontent, we had corpses that could not be buried, we had cancer patients who could not get treatment, we had rubbish piled in the streets and rats swarming everwhere.
I know she made a lot of mistakes but we became a power again because of her, so credit where credit is due!
I hope the page won't scorch when Phil and Josie answer this!!! |
Written by Phil (6683 comments posted) 14th October 2007 |
Ah! Hitler also made Germany a power - although, even I recognise that there are not that many similarities. Perhaps there would have been more had she thought she could get away with it.
Phil. |
Written by Fledermaus (3248 comments posted) 14th October 2007 |
Thanks Audrie,
I'll leave the Margret Thatcher discussion up to you. The sort of people I had in mind were rather the type of Mary I, Elizabeth I, empress Cixi and so on.
The point was that just as there were male tyrants, there were female tyrants and power can corrupt women just as easily as it corrupts men.
I do shake things up now and then, but I did not mean there are no female versions of Ghandi and Mandela. Just that not all female leaders are, and that women could just as well be Stalins and Mussolinis. |
You're right, Fledermaus.
Written by audrie (451 comments posted) 15th October 2007 |
It's the same old story isn't it? Power corrupts!
When leaders have been in power for several years they think they can do as they like and won't listen to reason.
We've just got rid of one who thought he was God!
Like arachnids, the female can be dealier than the male!
Stir, stir!!
PS. I did say 'can be'! |
Written by Fledermaus (3248 comments posted) 18th October 2007 |
Thanks again Audrie.
Exactly  |
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