In a parallel universe, where women hold a majority of positions of authority in legal systems, do you think there are complicated rules around vasectomies?

So many possibilities… It’s hard to say, for all we know, it may easily be that their world would be nigh identical just flip flopped with genders. Like God, Allah, etc. are women, it’s Jessica Christ as opposed to Jesus, Theresa instead of Theseus, etc. To be frank, who knows?

Most likely: “These people think they can just have all the sex they want without responsibility. That’s not what sex is for, it’s for making traditional families! There are women out there suffering everyday because they can’t find an uncut man to give up their sperm!”

Men need to cover their manly parts on beaches. Many beaches are topless for women.

I do think if women were in charge tampons would be covered at minimum under FSA/HSA plans.

I would go for condoms being covered also, or given out by the government without a profit to be made, like vaccinations that barely turn a profit. They do protect the public health.

I was trying to think why anyone, or women specifically, would want to butt in on what men do with their junk and all I could come up with was this:

Some people just like to tell other people how to live their lives.

Interesting this is the same reason I come up with for why people flip their shit over female oriented birth control.

As far as I can tell neither gender has a monopoly on sticking their noses in other peoples business so I can’t honestly say that I think women would be better or worse when it comes to legislating male-centric sexual health.

Huh? No, women are not like men. They have a sense of fair play.

I can’t give you an answer because no such universe exists but I understand what you’re saying. Basically…if, for example, expression of milk for children was something men did in our (sexist) society, then breastfeeding in public would be hailed as a heroic, important act…they would not have to breastpump on the toilet when in school or at work and there would be special breastfeeding suites available.

Even if women were in charge, the exigencies of evolutionary success would not change. Women do not need to control male sexuality. They know who the children belong to. It is men who need to try to exert control so they can have more certainty about bringing up their own children.

It doesn’t matter how smart and knowledgeable we are about these things. Evolutionary imperatives trump civilization. We cannot legislate morality and expect ourselves to be law abiding if the laws go against what is best for passing on our genes. This is why, in fact, hypocrisy is a good technique for evolutionary success. You say you are moral, but behave otherwise as long as you can get away with it.

This article paraphrases an evolutionary psychologist named Ray Kurzban, who suggests that “One of the most popular human mating strategies is to have a faithful partner, lie to that partner, have lots of sex with other people, and then make public statements judging others for being promiscuous.”

If women ran the world, that wouldn’t change. I doubt that women would be stupid enough to try to implement laws that can’t be enforced and no man would want to follow. Besides which, they wouldn’t have the motivation to do so. Women tend to not be as concerned about male infidelity as it sounds. They make a lot of noise, but they don’t do as much as the noise would suggest. Otherwise there would be a lot more divorces. It’s just not as important to women that men are faithful as it is to men that women are faithful.

That’s why there is a double standard. Life is not equal. It may be logical, but the logic is difficult to understand, and even this evolutionary psychological point of view may turn out to be wrong. In any case, the logic of evolution does not fit the logic of justice, and thus we have double standards which people bitch about, but no one really does anything about.

None of that changes in a woman-run world. Indeed, I would argue that no such alternative universe could exist. No. I won’t go that far. I’ll say it would be a rare, rare occurrence. The way we may want the world to be is not so much in our power as we might believe. Biology has more say over social behavior than I think we are aware of.

@Simone_De_Beauvoir Great example. I will point out that I always thought the lounge areas in bathrooms, back in the day of when they put reasonably large lounge areas in ladies restrooms, were for breast feeding and tending to babies and children. In fact, men eventually started to point out they needed baby changing tables in their restrooms too.

@marinelife Your answer is not fair, I want you to leave Fluther. :P

@marinelife “Huh? No, women are not like men. They have a sense of fair play.”

I don’t think having a sense of fair play has any relation to a person’s gender. I kinda roll my eyes at every sentence that starts “if women ruled the world”. Women have strengths and weaknesses just like men, this has nothing to do with their gender and everything to do with their humanity.

Oh…you were way ahead of me!

“Do you think there would exist laws that explicitly govern what men do with their bodies?” That is the Best Quote Ever.