Bros before Hos?
- Thread starter S.A.M.
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Hell, either ones, Sniffy. Just start naming women leaders in history who've made any kind of mark in history (other than just being a female leader!) and we'll all make up our own minds about "good" or "bad".
Nope, I'm convinced .... One of the greatest mistakes in the history of man was to give women the right to vote.
Baron Max
For males, very probably - yet men are only half of the human population. On balance, the verdict is neither 'good' nor 'bad'.
These four are the most influential female leaders I can recall off of the top of my head. With a little digging I could find you many more.
Margaret Thatcher, admittedly who has already been mentioned, left a huge mark on 1980s Britain. In my opinion this mark was undoubtedly for the worse, although that wasn't what you asked was it?
Joan of Arc almost single-handedly led French troops to fight the English at Orleans during the Hundred Years’ War (despite her grisly end).
Boudicca came within a whisker of defeating the Romans while leader of the Iceni tribe. She was fierce in battle and achieved more in terms of ground won than many of her male leader contemporaries.
Trung Trac and Trung Nhi were sisters who lead the Vietnamese revolt against China.
Empress Catherine II of Russia (the great)'s reign is often described as a 'golden age'. She was particularly noted by contemporary sources for her generous help of the peasants of Tsarskoe Selo and efforts to help the conditions of serfs in general.
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Isn't it interesting that three out of the four were accomplish warriors and used violence to accomplish their goals? And Catherine wasn't such a slouch with violence, either, though it's mostly conjecture at this point.
Baron Max
Man didn't give women right to vote.
Pretty much. Certainly all the societies strongly influenced by the Abrahamic theisms, and all the great empires I can think of offhand, made more formal provision for political involvement by male slaves or male former slaves, male strangers or former strangers, than by women of any status.SAM said:
In western societies, men want women and do lots of things to get "it". Even giving then the right to vote.
In some of the more backward societies, when men want women, they just grab her and take "it". Women don't mean much 'cause men get "it" when they want "it".
Baron Max
I'm guessing your mom is an active voter because she sure as hell didn't spend enough time at home with you!
If females didn't have the vote, do you think the guy with the best hair and/or the tallest guy would always win? Look at the guys elected before females had the vote. Those were some ugly mother fuckers. Would women vote for a guy with wooden teeth? Or a gangly guy with a beard and no mustache? I doubt it. But do you thing the quality of elected officials has increased or decreased since women were given the vote?
SAVE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, REVERSE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE !!!!!
Look at any tribal society, any pagan society.