# What if women ruled the world? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 1, 2011, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-women-ruled-the-world/590992 "2011-08-01T01:38:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-women-ruled-the-world/590992/181 "2011-08-03T00:14:48Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#): > > Scotty, please grace us with your presence in the Pit… > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14093727#post14093727](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14093727#post14093727) Oh man, my first pitting. I’m a little nervous… ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-women-ruled-the-world/590992/182 "2011-08-03T01:50:46Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Just for the sake of argument assuming the study is valid and correct, it does NOT back up your assertion that women are less violent, kinder, and don’t make war. All it says is that they are less likely to be corrupt. Boy, I wonder what corruption leads too… ---
**Author:** ![punch\_line\_loser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e7dd6/32.png) [@punch\_line\_loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/punch_line_loser)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-women-ruled-the-world/590992/183 "2011-08-03T02:02:08Z")
“The world” should not be “run” by women, and it should not be “run” by men. It should be run by _capable individuals._ No matter how broadly or effectively anyone can generalize about either gender. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-women-ruled-the-world/590992/184 "2011-08-03T02:04:24Z")
> [@Scotty Mo](#): > > This link here suggests that women find beauty in all types of sexual activity while men not so much. That couldn’t be a bad thing right? > > [Dumb Scientist](http://dumbscientist.com/archives/are-women-really-the-fairer-sex) This can’t possibly be serious, right? I mean, Doc Cathode pointed out that Cite #2 had nothing to do with being less violent, but Cite #1 right here is so _ **obviously** _ unrelated as to give away the whole gag? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-women-ruled-the-world/590992/185 "2011-08-03T02:06:09Z")
> [@Scotty Mo](#): > > Boy, I wonder what corruption leads too… If all goes well, you pocket the bribes in exchange for doling out preferential treatment. ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-women-ruled-the-world/590992/186 "2011-08-03T03:15:16Z")
> [@punch\_line\_loser](#): > > “The world” should not be “run” by women, and it should not be “run” by men. It should be run by _capable individuals._ No matter how broadly or effectively anyone can generalize about either gender. But the world is run by men and women. And generalities exist. It just happens that there are far more male ones and too much of anything is usually a bad thing. As far as capable individuals goes, I can certainly agree. How we get those though is definitely up for debate. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-women-ruled-the-world/590992/187 "2011-08-03T04:49:47Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#): > > Let’s take a classroom of first graders, when boys get mad at one another they push, shove, call names, maybe have a fistfight on the playground and then go back to being friends. Girls, on the other hand, at age 7 know how to smile sweetly at a girl they are angry with, and go behind her back and lie, gossip, whatever. They know how to get into each other’s brains and just fuck 'em all up. And that’s 7 year olds! You ain’t kiddin’! I’ve always said that there’s no one nastier than middle-school girls. (Generally aged 11-14) If THEY ruled the world, that would be fucking scary. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-women-ruled-the-world/590992/188 "2011-08-03T04:52:54Z")
> [@Scotty Mo](#): > > Boy, I wonder what corruption leads too… > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > If all goes well, you pocket the bribes in exchange for doling out preferential treatment. Either that, or you get funny colored skin and a voice with a reverb effect. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-women-ruled-the-world/590992/189 "2011-08-03T04:56:24Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > You ain’t kiddin’! I’ve always said that there’s no one nastier than middle-school girls. (Generally aged 11-14) If THEY ruled the world, that would be fucking scary. Word. You could probably make some money rewriting [Lord of the Flies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies) but with girls as the protagonists. ---
**Author:** ![punch\_line\_loser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e7dd6/32.png) [@punch\_line\_loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/punch_line_loser)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-women-ruled-the-world/590992/190 "2011-08-03T05:00:05Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Word. > > You could probably make some money rewriting [Lord of the Flies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies) but with girls as the protagonists. That actually does sound like a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-women-ruled-the-world/590992/191 "2011-08-03T09:53:45Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Women criminals are it’s true less likely to be arrested and prosecuted and convicted; but that doesn’t mean they aren’t committing crimes. It just means the authorities prefer to go after men. I’m sure this is true as far as it goes…but how far does it go? Because the gulf is massive and is true in every culture ever studied, including HG societies cut off from civilization for hundreds or thousands of years. When the ratio of men-to-women being arrested for murder is 8:1 it can’t just be a worldwide conspiracy that’s taking place. Unless you’re gonna say there are tens of thousands of male murderers in prison who are completely innocent because the police ignored the actual woman who committed the crime. Or you say the total numbers are similar, but no one is following up on those missing 5,000 murder victims/year women kill. I disagree with people talking about putting women on a pedestal. Pointing out that women commit less than 1% of the rapes men do isn’t elevating women, it’s showing how fucked up men are. It’s the lesser of two evils principle. ---
**Author:** ![Latro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@Latro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latro)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-women-ruled-the-world/590992/192 "2011-08-03T10:19:21Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > I’m sure this is true as far as it goes…but how far does it go? Wasn’t there a saying? Behind every criminal man stands a nagging wife. Or something or other.. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-women-ruled-the-world/590992.md?page=9)