Why Women Should Rule the World by Dee Dee Myers
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Book Summary Author: Dee Dee Myers Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2008-03-01 ISBN: 0061140406 Number of pages: 288 Publisher: Harper |
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Book Reviews of the Why Women Should Rule the World
Customer Review: To Knight Errant "30 Yr Veteran" and giver of 2 stars:
Summary: 5 Stars
I think Ms. Myers does a good job of coming across not as a shrew, man hater, or radical but as a woman who used to speak for the most powerful man in the world until she found her own voice and realized that she too had something to say. It isn't politically incorrect to say that females are more deadly than the male, it just isn't correct. You use a Kipling poem about bears as evidence to prove your argument that women are more deadly than the male? Yes a momma bear will protect her cubs because she has invested an entire winter of her physical self to sustain her cubs during hibernation. The he-bear hooks up with a she-bear and doesn't stick around long afterwords (unlike man?). He-Bear has little invested in the cubs, in fact, rival bears often try to kill another male's cubs. In nature a bear will stake out a territory and will fight to protect it if it is invaded. Man does the same, but unlike bear fights where both bears usually come away alive, man invades and kills anyone who stands in his way. A bear doesn't invade another's territory only to be surprised when the invaded bears fight back. Your quote from Kipling cannot stand in balance to thousands of years of man killing man. Back when women were considered property, bought and sold like cattle, men were fighting each other over territory. In an unbroken chain of violence, the killing goes on today.
"30 yr Veteran" means military service where I'm from so let me say I deeply appreciate your service to our country. You were fighting to protect our freedoms. One of those freedoms is the right to free speech, to exchange ideas, to not be censored in any way, unpunished for having a different view from our government. I understand why you fought so hard to defend the constitution. It is a precious document that preserves our freedom. My grandfather was in WWI, my uncles in WWII, my father in Korea, my cousins in Vietnam and now one in Iraq. I understand your point of view but consider this, who is more likely in a family to resolve conflict peacefully? Who was most likely to empathize with your pain and comfort you? Who would be there win or lose? I'm proud to be a man but I'm prouder still to have been raised by a strong intelligent mother who was raised, along with 11 siblings, by my strong intelligent grandmother. The women in my family are more deadly than a male if something is trying to hurt their kids. To tie a bow on this, men are the ones that women are usually trying to protect their kids from.
I was raised by women who should have ruled the world and surely ruled mine. They, and I, think they did a pretty good job. I bet your mom did too. It sounds like she had plenty to be proud of. I would vote for either one of our moms to be less ruthless and more restrained when deciding on what kind of nation we should leave our children. Women are more likely to consider the impact on children everywhere when deciding a course of action. Women would indeed be ruthless to protect this nation against those who seek to do us harm. If threatened the momma bear will defending her cubs, but only if threatened. The rest of the time she is busy solving the problems of how to shelter, feed, educate and protect her cubs. Thank you for reading my response. M. Gill