Nina
In order to see what the world would be like if women had emerged as the
controllers of it, we must separate ourselves from the way things are today.
We live in a society that has been developing for thousands of years. The
roles which men and women have been socialized into are so deeply imbedded that
we have a hard time realizing that we could be any other way than what we are.
Men are "trained" to be aggressive, unsensitive just like women are "trained"
to be nurturing and caring. All this crap (and excuse my language, but that's
just what I think it is) about women being more naturally sensitive and
connected to their children, IMO, is totally untrue. As a woman and a
feminist, I am fighting against the box that society has stuffed me into. I am
fighting against the limitations that are forced upon me and everyone else in
this culture (or in any other culture for that matter) and to claim that
biological differences are the primary reason for our differences is
backsliding.
Perhaps if today there was suddenly a "power swap" and women were the world
leaders and men were the homemakers and schoolteachers things would radically
change. Perhaps the world would become more peaceful and focused on the
preservation of this Earth and her inhabitants. I don't know. But of course
this is not going to happen.
However, taken back to the emergence of agriculture (why do I feel like I'm
repeating myself here?) and the emergence of private ownership, if women had
been the ones to own and control the fields and the profits (which they did not
and this WAS primarily for biological differences between men and women) I
think that women would have become (even more) greedy, selfish, domineering,
and abusive to each other, men, the Earth. Because with ownership comes
competition and power and most importantly, the desire to maintain economic
status and the power obtained from this status. Women in capitalist societies
who do have wealth and power ACT IN THE SAME WAYS AS MEN DO (sorry to shout,
just caps for emphasis). Check out some statistics on this.
Ah sigh, off to work now - we are talking a bit, aren't we?
Tj. :)
peace is never a bomb!
