How to Rule the World: A Handbook for the Aspiring Dictator

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But it's not hard to see how a world parliament could bypass and undermine dictatorships. Just as proportional representation in European elections has encouraged us to start questioning our own, flawed system, genuine global democracy would highlight democratic deficits all over the world. We need to do away with romanticising matriarchal power and dominance – and instead question the ways we can change the problematic and dangerous power structures that operate within society today. Another is pursuing a genocidal war in an annexed republic. A third is facing allegations of corruption. A fourth, the summit's host, has been convicted of illegal party financing, bribery and false accounting, while his righthand man is on trial for consorting with the mafia. Women ask questions from a different perspective, which may be because we’ve been mothers, daughters or sisters. I’ve never been a separatist. I’m an inclusive feminist, but there is really interesting research that shows women tend to make more holistic decisions and I think that’s because the burden of feeding and raising children and looking after the domestic environment falls mostly to them.

Lui’s hand as a writer is deftest in her ability to mix important social, cultural, racial and political critique with wit, physical humour and comic audacity. This balance ensures that her work never feels too worthy; it is laughter and humanity that ensure the audience will lean in a little closer to listen to what’s being said. Accepting the need for global democracy means accepting the loss of our own nations' power to ensure that the world is run for our benefit.But were the G8 nations governed by angels, they would still be incapable of promoting global democracy. These eight hungry men represent just 13% of the world's population. Last year, for example, the G8 leaders announced that they were determined to achieve the goals of the Kyoto protocol limiting climate change and that they would preserve and strengthen the anti-ballistic-missile treaty. But the important fact is that this rule won't kill every mob around already spawned. It's just won't let them spawn anymore. So if you really wanted to see whether there is a difference in the way women would rule the world, you would have to have either all-female rulers or a critical mass. But, ultimately, I’m resistant to the idea of lumping us all together on the basis of gender: what about race, class, sexual orientation? Even men I like are fond of saying “women this” or “women that” as if we are all one amorphous mass. I’m instinctively resistant to binaries. Hooray for ambiguity, nuance and complexity. ‘Women are taking their rightful place as equals’ It’s not about leaders and role models. It’s about sisterhood and working together. If we only had women MPs, right now Labour would be in government with a huge majority – because we’ve got 119 and the Tories have only got 67. That’s a good reason to have only women MPs.

The G8 leaders know that the "global democracy" they are due to discuss is a sham, and they will do all they can to keep it that way. The result: 46.78 seconds, the first sub-47s in history. In other words, the gazelle that Warholm and Benjamin were chasing. First of all, free tampons, legal abortion everywhere, and actual jail sentences given to 100% of rapists instead of the 5% we see today. And hopefully, with the right head-bitch in charge, there would be some kind of limit to how much a man was allowed to interrupt and mansplain. The second the convoy stops going to Step 1 they fail. They already failed and don’t know it like you imply above. They failed when they hit the road because they assumed worthiness instead of becoming it and they’re in active denial of it.I imagine we would call it the Law of Sschhh: if a woman says sschhh to a man, he is bound by law to go home and sit down and shut up. Soon, there will be no sexual assault, no catcalling, no mansplaining, no #notallmen. Important messaging and a deep cultural and creative heritage alone do not make for interesting, compelling theatre. Convincing, engaging characters adroitly realised, provocative ideas, sophisticated wit, infectious humour and stories that provoke a response do – and How to Rule the World has all of those things in abundance. https://www.cafonline.org/my-personal-giving/long-term-giving/resource-centre/five-reasons-to-give-to-charity Supremacy based on gender has never been an attractive idea and patriarchal dystopias are no longer in an imagined future, or long buried past, but part of our present. Patriarchy makes us equal in one way, though: men are as arrested in their development as women. Given the challenges of being in charge, you’d think they would be more than happy to hand over the headache and see what difference having women in charge makes.