I’ve been asked several times recently whether I believe in “female supremacy”. I sense that there is some confusion on the difference between “female superiority” and “female supremacy”, so I want to make sure you understand the difference before I begin enforcement of my definitions of the terms.
Haha… But seriously.
Female Superiority
I view “female superiority” as the natural state of things. In most human strengths, females are superior. They have a higher verbal intelligence, which means they can read and comprehend better, write better, and speak better. Given the same training, they have better endurance. They have a higher tolerance for pain when indisposed, thanks to nature’s preparing them for childbirth. Not only does everybody know that males are a bunch of wusses when they are sick, but it has been scientifically proven.
Females are more mature and stable emotionally. They form alliances with others so they have more emotional support when they need it.
They don’t do stupid risky things like males do for fun, so they have a lower death rate, even if this is Mother Nature’s way of thinning the herd of males without good survival instincts.
Females are less driven by their hormones to constantly waste their time looking for sex, as they are only fertile a few days a month. This gives them time to actually seek out desirable males, so they don’t end up with male losers.
Female Supremacy
“Supremacy” is when you base social structures on your idea of superiority and use laws to enforce that.
The Nazi party in Germany based its laws on what they imagined to be the “natural superiority” of “Aryans”. So other ethnic groups were both racially and morally inferior in their eyes, and did not deserve to exist on the same level as Aryans.
“White supremacists” believe that white people are superior, and all the good jobs, college placements, and subsidies—including tuition and health care—should go to them.
Now we get to “female supremacists”. On a yahoo group named “Woman thou art God” I belonged to a few years ago, the owner was a bitter old (at heart) woman who believed that males should be subjugated by law to females, that they should be prevented from getting higher education and training, that they should by law be required to live owned by women.
How this would have played out would be that females would be well-educated and have all the good jobs, while without education many males would be unemployable. They would of course deserve to be punished for being unemployed (she was losing me on this seriously). And, since men would have a high unemployment rate, and many could not find jobs, women would have to support them.
Excuse me, HELLO??? Prevent males from getting education and then work to support them?
If people want to live in families that are set up on the model where the woman makes all the decisions and the man does all the housework, it is fine with me. It’s a free country, and consenting adults are free to make choices.
In the real world, there is overlap between people’s skills and talents. We cannot categorize people based only on their gender, color, or anything else. There are superior males, and there are (sshhh…) inferior females.
I believe that in an ideal world every child should be able to grow up with an education that will maximize his or her earning potential. Both males and females should be able to find fulfilling work that pays a living wage.
How else could a slave ever dream of supporting his Mistress?
September 24th, 2009 at 9:45 am
As the author of the ‘Scars of Obsession’ (Romantic comedy Female Supremacy action thriller) I have found your words speeking directly to my very soul. Oh to be yours…any man can dream. I just know that I am going to have to repeat read your writing…its inspiring, thought provoking, well written and wholly agreeable.
June 6th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Well written and somewhat balanced, Goddess.
Thank you for finally calling a stop to this female supremacy hoopla. People are people and some people (male or female) have better skills in some areas than other people. No woman or man is qualified to lead or rule based solely on their gender, color, political affiliation etc. It’s just such an asinine idea. I’m sure there are many women who are qualified leaders but it has nothing to do with her gender.
Your distinction between superiority and supremacy is just a semantic one. Once you acknowledge superiority, supremacy is naturally to follow. Your examples of detestable supremacists illustrates this point well. If one truly believes they are a superior being then why shouldn’t they believe they have the right to reign supreme? It calls to mind the divine right of kings. It’s a dangerous idea.
Also, your criteria for determining who is superior seems to be arbitrary. Why are those points you made to be the only criteria? It seems you have cherry picked female traits as desirable and then used those same female traits as proof that females are superior. Thanks for the dose of circular logic.
Overall, I think you wrote a fairly level headed piece, particularly the ending. There are men and women who believe it is desirable to teach male inferiority and female superiority to children. I have a word for that – child abuse. Teaching a male child that he is inferior from birth will give that boy no chance to grow up and fulfill his potential and it makes me sick. Teaching girls that they are the superior gender will raise a nation of tyrannical women. Put them together and you could just get your female supremacist society and it will be every bit as oppressive towards men, even more so I think, than anything women have been subjected to in the past.
June 6th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Everything I write is pretty tongue in cheek. Don’t take me too seriously. Often I say things that people expect to hear.
Fantasy is great, but trying to get other people to live in a fantasy world of someone else’s choosing is, well, non-reality-based.