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Supremacy has nothing to do with superiority. In a civilized society we give supremacy to reason and the law. We do that because we can trust these two methods to serve our needs more than all other methods. That is what I meant by female supremacy, which my husband and I strongly believe in. It is the willing yielding to females to make the final decision in all matters. Nine times out of ten, when my husband and I discuss a matter, I end up approving his ideas, but the decision is always mine to make!

Superiority, on the other hand, is the belief that there is an in-born distinction and preference for a gender, race, or what have you. I do not believe in female superiority as an absolute, but I believe that women are superior to men in many things, while men are superior in other things.

The reason that I kept trying to point out the difference is that I did not want the people who see things like I do to be put off by their natural disapproval of superiority of any gender or race. I don’t want them to disapprove of female supremacy just because they equate it with female superiority.

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.

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.