Funmurphys: the Blog

If Moms Ran the World ...

The flying nun got everybody stirred up the other day by saying:

“May they be seen, may their work be valued and raised, and to especially the mothers who stand with an open heart and wait – wait for their children to come home for from danger, from harm’s way and from war. I’m not finished. I have to finish talking … if the mothers ruled the world there would be no goddamn wars in the first place.”

The left is decrying "censorship" because FOX cut the cussing (and the rest of the statement with it) out.

Personally, this underscores you're on solid PC ground claiming women are superior to men (not just the flying nun, but entire women's studies departments claim this), but you're in trouble if you claim men are superior to women -just ask Larry Summers who was disinvited to speak by the University of California Regents after they were reminded of Dr. Summers remark that it would be worth researching whether the dearth of female professors in the hard sciences was due to innate sex differences. How is this different than saying mothers are more innately fit to run the world than fathers? Just asking.

I also have to wonder at the condition, if moms ran the world.

Umm, don't they already?

Saint Ignatius of Loyola (founder of the Jesuits) famously observed "Give me the child until he is seven and I will show you the man". I not so famously have observed that women in general, and mom's in particular, have the children -- boys and girls -- to at least seven. I'd pay money to see a discussion between Mr. Jason Whitlock and Mrs. Sally Field on this subject do we have insufficient fathering in this country?

At the risk of raising ire from the right people, I'll also point out that "momma's boy" is not a compliment.

So my answer to the question What would life be like if moms ran the world, I have to say not much different. Actually, I take that back. If we mean only moms ran the world in a dictatorial fashion, then there would be more emphasis on reducing risk across the board - physically, economically, etc. And there would be more emphasis on religion. And we'd all wear clean underwear under penalty of law. I say this because these are two areas where men and women are different - women are more risk averse and more religious, and everybody knows about moms and clean underwear.

But an end to war altogether? No.