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In reply to the discussion: Elizabeth Warren gets standing ovation at Native American conference [View all]Caliman73
(11,728 posts)Kind of how minorities have to navigate the world differently than White people do. I am not a woman but I am a minority and have been in situations where my race put me into danger that would not likely befall the average White person. Having grown up around some pretty strong and assertive women, I learned that women's survival, health, and safety are precarious as a sole result of their womanhood in many situations.
When your survival depends on viewing the world through a much wider, but at the same time, more focused lens, you start to really see the world as it is, not as you would like it to be. You see not only your own challenges, but the challenges of other people.
That is why I think it is usually up to women to get things right. They actually have the capacity to get things right. Not to say that men never have the capacity to get things right or do the right thing, but when you have the privilege of messing up and not receiving significant consequences for messing up, you tend to become over confident in your abilities.
Anyway, my two cents. As a man, I would not mind seeing a world where women assume political power. I don't think men's lives would change all that much, except we'd have to stop acting like assholes.