"I give good dead"? Brilliant! I love that woman. And she gets bonus points for being rational about the whole "a woman-led society would be more nurturing" thing. I've always found that assertion to be infuriatingly sexist, myself.
I wonder if you even could have an Earth where women have been in charge throughout human history. Observation of our closest primate relatives (chimpanzees and bonobos), as well as our more distant cousins, shows that their females are ultimately subservient to the males, so there's no reason to assume that our ancestors were any different. So the real trick for the writer (and this is something I'd like to see done, and done well) would be to explain how women inverted that hierarchy in the first place.
Have you ever read Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman? It's a feminist utopia, but she manages to write it without being too sexist about men. It was actually a fun read, despite the premise (I assumed it would be sexist and idealistic and annoying). And she doesn't fall into any of the clichés like "the male explorers come and bring war and disease with them." It's a short read, and I recommend it.
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on 2006-03-08 07:06 am (UTC)I wonder if you even could have an Earth where women have been in charge throughout human history. Observation of our closest primate relatives (chimpanzees and bonobos), as well as our more distant cousins, shows that their females are ultimately subservient to the males, so there's no reason to assume that our ancestors were any different. So the real trick for the writer (and this is something I'd like to see done, and done well) would be to explain how women inverted that hierarchy in the first place.
Have you ever read Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman? It's a feminist utopia, but she manages to write it without being too sexist about men. It was actually a fun read, despite the premise (I assumed it would be sexist and idealistic and annoying). And she doesn't fall into any of the clichés like "the male explorers come and bring war and disease with them." It's a short read, and I recommend it.