War is the Absence of Women

[Starbeach]

It cannot go unsaid - during Women's History Month - that war largely emerges from the presence of deranged men - and the absence of women. Yes, defenses are necessary (don't women live that way?) but the bro gloating over destruction and firepower is revolting. I see sadism emerging as policy from Trump, Miller, and their yes, sir! men and yes, sir! women. And when I see that, I still see the absence of women.

[Walleye]

1. Women don't start wars.

I remember when Madeline Albright was secretary of state and she sat down with the head of the Palestinian movement at that time and I can’t remember her name, but it was two women and they sat there and they worked out the whole problem.

[Ocelot II]

2. Same with Northern Ireland.

https://www.herstory.ie/photo-essays-2/2019/9/12/women-and-the-northern-ireland-peace-process
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-64953527

[Walleye]

16. Very interesting and informative article, thank you

I think more American women are being kept out of the arena by massaging ism, hateful, ridicule. Anonymous death threats. We’ve got to show them who we are. I guess we’re tired of taking this shit. God, dammit, we are American women and we are strong

[Quiet Em]

3. Bad men governing our country, teaming up with bad men governing another country,

blowing up bad men governing another country.

It's really quite ridiculous.

[suegeo]

4. A Surplus of Men, A Defcit of Peace

The following study demonstrates that violence ensues if there are too many men and too much gender inequality.

https://kar.kent.ac.uk/11430/1/surplus_men_IS_article.pdf

One overlooked wellspring of insecurity, we argue, is
exaggerated gender inequality.

and also

A move toward authoritarianism is much more likely

and

In a way, the very type of government to which a nation can aspire
may be tied to the status of women in society. When that status is very
low, the possibilities for a full and meaningful democracy and for a peaceful
foreign policy are distinctly less. High sex-ratio societies, denoting a very
low status for women, cannot be expected to emulate normal sex-ratio societies
either in terms of their form of government or in terms of their tendency to
ward peacefulness.

[Starbeach]

5. Agree

Yes, very clear.

[Walleye]

6. I have often said that we shouldn't have diplomatic relations with countries that treat women like shit

And I also say it’s not the men we worry about, it’s the overgrown boys

[Sogo]

13. We're starting to be one of those countries....

nt

[Walleye]

14. Yes, we tolerated it too much around the world and now we have become them

[NJCher]

7. Men do not do well without women

Have you ever noticed that many become unglued if their spouse or partner dies first?

Have you ever looked at their homes? Generally kind of pitiful, but not always. Sheesh, I even recall a guy who stapled his curtains to the window frame.

And don't even ask me about the time I asked one to set the placemats for dinner.

And they are the first to admit it, too.

[PJMcK]

10. Hmm

Not sure I agree with your observation because it’s a very broad brush stroke.

Anecdotally, I’ve seen both men and women who don’t do well after they lose their partner. I’ve also seen the opposite where the individual thrives on their own.

But stapling the curtains?! That’s a new one to me!

[NJCher]

12. there are exceptions

but they are rare. You're probably one of them.

[PJMcK]

18. Well, thank you

That was very nice of you!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. just because they're self-infantalized doesn't mean they need women

[FakeNoose]

8. Agree completely ... and this male madness goes back to ancient times

Something in the male psyche makes them blind to this crazy thinking. Somehow the madness in males convinces them that "I'm going to survive this, even if you and everyone else doesn't. Therefore I win."

But women don't have that magical thinking, and it enables us (I'm a woman) to stand back objectively and say "This is crazy, it's going to destroy everyone and everything."

[Walleye]

15. Definitely looks like it's gonna be up to us to straighten out this mess

The current administration thinks we are worthless

[stage left]

9. Good post.

Women are more pragmatic than men and more practical. They have to be. We should try a matriarchy for a change.

[Jose Garcia]

17. Don't tell thar to Argentina

[littlemissmartypants]

19. Lots of supportive evidence for this assertion.

Sex and World Peace: How the Treatment of Women Affects Development and Security
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“What we have discovered is that the very best predictor of how insecure and unstable a nation is not its level of democracy, it’s not its level of wealth, it’s not what ‘Huntington civilization’ it belongs to, but is in fact best predicted by the level of violence against women in the society,” said Valerie Hudson, co-author of Sex and World Peace, at an April 26 book launch at the Wilson Center.

The Paradox of Missing Women

The basis of the book – applying a gender lens to international security – followed from early feedback from her colleagues at Brigham Young University, who suggested that if her goal was to understand the reasons for “blood spilt and lives lost,” she would do better to look at ideological conflict rather than women’s security.

In response, she made a simple comparison of deaths from conflict and the number of “missing women” in the world. Looking at “as many [conflicts] as I possibly could,” Hudson said she totaled 152 million deaths in 20th century fighting. By comparison, the United Nations Population Fund reported that at the turn of the century – just “one generation, if you will, of the century” – 163 million women went missing from Asia alone.

The missing women phenomenon is “a significant paradox” in global development, said Klugman. “On the one hand there have been enormous advances in terms of life expectancy, but at the same time, relative to boys and men, there’s still enormous excess mortality.”

http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2012/05/sex-and-world-peace-how-the-treatment-of-women-affects-development-and-security/

The discussion:
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Hudson%20Presentation.pdf

Sex & World Peace by Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, and Chad F. Emmett
Helen M. Kinsella | May 31, 2013



https://cup.columbia.edu/book/sex-and-world-peace/9780231131827/

Pub Date: February 2014
ISBN: 9780231131834
304 Pages

Format: Paperback
List Price: $24.95 £20.00

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