{"id":24850,"date":"2011-03-22T13:02:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T17:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/24850\/women-ran-world-war-ummm-gaddafi\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T13:02:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T17:02:26","slug":"women-ran-world-war-ummm-gaddafi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/24850\/women-ran-world-war-ummm-gaddafi\/","title":{"rendered":"If Women Ran The World, There Would be No War – Ummm, Tell that to Gaddafi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"If women ran the world, there would be no war.<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n


\nOr far less war\u2026 perhaps.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\nI spent some time trying to find a feminist thinker who had expressed this sentiment, hoping to start this blog off with a nice quote.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t find such a quote.\u00a0 Instead, this idea that if women ran things there would be less conflict is something that has just sort of wormed it\u2019s way into the heart of feminist ideology. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

I can see examples of it in the animal kingdom everyday when I let my cats out. Not that there’s much feminist thought amongst animals, instead I mean that males are warlike in nature. Barry, the male, goes out looking to fight, defend his territory.\u00a0 Bliss, the female, hangs back and doesn\u2019t start stuff. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\nSome of this thought comes from just looking at how the world has come to be after millennia of male dominated patriarchy.\u00a0 When we look back at the 20th Century, surely we\u2019d be hard pressed to find a time in our history when war and killing each other has been more pervasive.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t went to delve into a feminist critique of history, but in the course of my lifetime, I would say there has been a definite shift in the power balance between the sexes.\u00a0 Women aren\u2019t \u201crunning things\u201d yet, but neither is it the exclusive domain of men any more either. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\nThe reason I am writing this has to do with how the United States decided to go to war with Libya.\u00a0 Barack Obama, in particular.\u00a0 I can edit stuff off my DVR and I took this from yesterday\u2019s Hardball program.\u00a0 Chris sets up the question perfectly and then reads from a report by the Washington Post.\u00a0 Check this out:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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America Lead into War by Women<\/a> – The best video clips are here<\/a><\/div>\n

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\"\"Yes, there has been a bit of the boys-versus-girls in Obama\u2019s advisors this last week and it was the boys who said that Libya is not in our vital American interests and urged restraint.\u00a0 The girls said BOMB NOW!\u00a0 Ultimately, it was Obama\u2019s decision, but it sort of puts an interesting shadow on this whole idea that we wouldn\u2019t have as many wars if women ran things.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Who knows?\u00a0 Maybe Ms Samantha Power and Ms Susan Rice are being more hawkish in their advisements BECAUSE they\u2019re compensating and don\u2019t want to be seen as soft women unwilling to fight.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard theories that Hillary pushed for attacking Libya at her husband\u2019s urging as he has lingering existential guilt over not stopping what happened in Rwanda. Maybe they simply feel it\u2019s the right thing to be doing and they just happened to be the ones in those positions and wearing dresses.\u00a0 Hard to say.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"In any case, until we have a female Commander-in-Chief who commits a unilateral attack in an unjustified war (say like Iraq), this idea that women running things would naturally translate into less war won\u2019t go away.\u00a0 What do you think?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If women ran the world, there would be no war.<\/p>\n

Or far less war\u2026 perhaps.<\/p>\n

I spent some time trying to find a feminist thinker who had expressed this sentiment, hoping to start this blog off with a nice quote. I couldn\u2019t find such a quote. Instead, this idea that if women ran things there would be less conflict is something that has just sort of wormed it\u2019s way into the heart of feminist ideology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1428,25],"tags":[1296,2717,81,2716,1957,234,2719,2718,1978,933,991],"class_list":["post-24850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics-2","category-world","tag-clinton","tag-feminism","tag-joko","tag-lead","tag-libya","tag-politics","tag-sam-powers","tag-susan-rice","tag-usa","tag-war","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}