Throughout history the leaders of countries have been primarily men. My only question is why? Men seem to be primarily trigger-happy, aggressive, have WAY too big of egos, and tend to get their feelings hurt too often. Now before I start hating on all men, let’s get something straight. I am not referring to every single man out there; these are only my observations of past events and recent news. My observations may seem kind of stereotyped but whose aren’t? I am sure there are a lot of kind, gentle, and caring men out there, I am only writing about the typical trend…
Men. There are too many of them in leadership positions. If you think about it, most of nations’ problems can be directly routed back to the fact that a man was in charge. Think about it. The US is in debt, a very large debt I might add, and a large amount of it is because so much money is going to the military. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that big guns cost a lot of money but if we weren’t in so many wars then we wouldn’t need as many guns.
My theory of why we are in so many wars is that men are very aggressive. If some foreign country pounces on their egos, they go and write a war declaration. I think we should play a little cat and mouse. Haven’t you seen the cartoon Tom & Jerry? The mouse sure wins most of the time, he just goes around doing his business and the pouncing cat gets hammered on his own.
The attacks on 9/11 were tragic, but did we really have to be so quick to go to war? They might have tried to figure out who actually did it before they went to war with the wrong country! Not even counting the fact that it wasn’t even a country that did it. It was a terrorist organization. There is no such thing as an organized terrorist country. So why in the world would we pick a fight with a country in the first place? Why not CSI or someone to go and kill/capture the terrorists without going to war with the country they are residing in? We have been in Iraq now for 10 years. Doesn’t anyone else think that’s a little ridiculous, considering we assassinated the person responsible for the attack years ago?
Now if women were in control of nations instead of men, I feel like we would have a lot more periods of peace. The overall stereotype of women is that we are calm, kind, caring, and thoughtful. Women wouldn’t retaliate after an attack. I’m sure we wouldn’t leave it be, but there would be no war declaration. Women can be viscous, but they are not rash. Even in adolescence women think of tactical ways to get inside the enemy’s head. We make relationships and pick and choose alliances.
Even though both sides can be mean in their own ways, how would history change if the world was not always ruled by men?
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