A society of all women vs all men

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    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • More correct than incorrect

    Votes: 1 12.5%
  • Dunno

    Votes: 2 25.0%
  • More incorrect than correct

    Votes: 3 37.5%
  • Strongly incorrect

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All woman: the society would be much more peaceful, but much less technologically advanced.

All men: the society would be much less peaceful, but much more technologically advanced.

I think women are largely responsible for a civil society and men are largely responsible for technological advancement of society. (historically and presently as far as I can tell)
 
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I don't think there is any real reason to think women are less intelligent in the higher stratas than men, or suffer from a lack of ingenuity. But, historically they definitely have suffered from a lack of opportunity.
It doesn't mean they're less intelligent. More women are going into medical schools than men these days, for example.

I was specifically talking about technological advancements.
 
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Jerome Silberman

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It doesn't mean they're less intelligent. More women are going into medical schools than men these days, for example.

I was specifically talking about technological advancements.

I said women are not less intelligent or lacking ingenuity. I can't grasp how if those two things are correct there would be a significant disparity in advancement. It would probably look different and focus on different areas, but that doesn't mean there wouldn't be comparable advancement overall. There have been women involved in the engineering at NASA nearly every step of the way, and that's just as good as any place to call the cutting edge
 
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I said women are not less intelligent or lacking ingenuity. I can't grasp how if those two things are correct there would be a significant disparity in advancement. It would probably look different and focus on different areas, but that doesn't mean there wouldn't be comparable advancement overall. There have been women involved in the engineering at NASA nearly every step of the way, and that's just as good as any place to call the cutting edge
Eh?

The obvious implication in my posting is that there are psychological differences between the sexes that affect these outcomes.

Not in intelligence, but in interest and behavior.

(may be some aptitude differences on average in specific areas of cognition... but that isn't the whole picture)
 

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Eh?

The obvious implication in my posting is that there are psychological differences between the sexes that affect these outcomes.

Not in intelligence, but in interest and behavior.

(may be some aptitude differences on average in specific areas of cognition... but that isn't the whole picture)

It's not as obvious as you think, and I told you why I have the opinion I do but can try again.

Given that very recently in the history of humanity women already have been heavily involved and influential in advanced technological fields while prior to the last 70ish years most of the opportunities to be in positions to develop technology were largely forbidden, I do not see any reason to assume that on a long enough timeline technology wouldn't advancement at a relatively similar pace. Especially if the exact people that have denied them the opportunities en mass were removed.
 
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It's not as obvious as you think, and I told you why I have the opinion I do but can try again.

Given that very recently in the history of humanity women already have been heavily involved and influential in advanced technological fields while prior to the last 70ish years most of the opportunities to be in positions to develop technology were largely forbidden, I do not see any reason to assume that on a long enough timeline technology wouldn't advancement at a relatively similar pace. Especially if the exact people that have denied them the opportunities en mass were removed.
I understand your point, but I don't see it.

But then why are they way ahead and even outnumbering men in fields that were once forbidden to them -- like medicine.

55 percent of doctor grads are women today. (the numbers become much more lopsided towards women in other areas of medicine)

Around 20 percent of electrical engineer grads are women, for example.

Seems like interest.
 
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I understand your point, but I don't see it.

But then why are they way ahead and even outnumbering men in fields that were once forbidden to them -- like medicine.

55 percent of doctor grads are women today. (the numbers become much more lopsided towards women in other areas of medicine)

Around 20 percent of electrical engineer grads are women, for example.

Seems like interest.

That's okay.

What is it "that you don't see"?
 

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It's not as obvious as you think, and I told you why I have the opinion I do but can try again.

Given that very recently in the history of humanity women already have been heavily involved and influential in advanced technological fields while prior to the last 70ish years most of the opportunities to be in positions to develop technology were largely forbidden, I do not see any reason to assume that on a long enough timeline technology wouldn't advancement at a relatively similar pace. Especially if the exact people that have denied them the opportunities en mass were removed.
Counter point:


Among lesbian couples, heterosexual couples, and gay male couples, lesbian couples consistently show the highest rates of both divorce and intimate partner violence (IPV/domestic violence). Lesbian (female same-sex) marriages have the highest divorce rates across countries like the UK, Sweden, Netherlands, and the US, often 2–2.5 times higher than gay male couples, with heterosexual couples falling in the middle. For example, Swedish data shows around 40% of female same-sex marriages ending in divorce versus ~30% for male same-sex and heterosexual marriages. In intimate partner violence, lifetime prevalence is also highest among lesbian women (~44%), exceeding heterosexual women (~35%), while gay men report the lowest rates (~26%). Most violence reported by lesbians comes from female partners, mirroring the gender pattern seen in relationship dissolution. These patterns hold in large government surveys (e.g., CDC NISVS) and administrative data, though caveats include reporting biases, relationship duration, and the relative recency of same-sex marriage tracking. Overall, the ranking is consistent: lesbian couples > heterosexual couples > gay male couples for both outcomes.
 
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What makes you think the women would be peaceful? Nobody hates women more than other women.
Also, most fights between men that I have seen had something to do with a woman. Just sayin'.
 
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I’m not sure about technological advances but an all women society would be way more catty and back stabbing. That’s for damn sure.
 

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What makes you think the women would be peaceful? Nobody hates women more than other women.
Also, most fights between men that I have seen had something to do with a woman. Just sayin'.

There is a 0% chance that an all women society would be peaceful. None.
 
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Been done

I dont have 5 hours to watch that but the AI overview says the females started with a predestined camp site and the men were dropped in the ocean and expected to start by swimming to shore.... is that true? Cuz thats absolutely ******** if they think thats comparable.
 

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There is a 0% chance that an all women society would be peaceful. None.
but they would small scale fights not wars and for relatively trivial (per males) reasons. an all male society i think guarantees scorched earth campaigns for...i was about to type important strategic reasons but it dawns on me that the reasons are equally likely to be dumb dumber and the dumbest of ****
 

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Jennifer Aniston Fighting GIF
 

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but they would small scale fights not wars and for relatively trivial (per males) reasons. an all male society i think guarantees scorched earth campaigns for...i was about to type important strategic reasons but it dawns on me that the reasons are equally likely to be dumb dumber and the dumbest of ****

Dumb like how the poster you're responding to chose to ignore the qualifier "more"?

Edit to add: It looks like there is more than one person here that won't/can't grasp greater than and less than. I wonder if that's a sign of a stunted intellect?
 

SeventhSon

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Dumb like how the poster you're responding to chose to ignore the qualifier "more"?

Edit to add: It looks like there is more than one person here that won't/can't grasp greater than and less than. I wonder if that's a sign of a stunted intellect?
The qualifier was actually "much more" and I still am skeptical of the premise.

I voted "Dunno", btw.