Entire population of women leave town

Nanda · Post by **Nanda** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:25 pm

The Week the Women Went

I think this is a fantastic idea.

Sketchywallflowr · Post by **Sketchywallflowr** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:32 pm

I think it's kind of sad how the women assumed the town would go to pieces without them- it's very telling of how women view themselves and how society views mothers and wives. It also seemed unfair that the fathers had a set time limit on their alone time with the kids. Anyone can plan out a fun little week of just kids and daddy... but what about doing it every day? For like, a year? Or ten years? It's a neat idea in theory, but a better experiemtn would have been to have the women leave unnanounced and disappear for an extended and unknown period of time.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:42 pm

Neat idea - a better idea would be to have the men and women just switch jobs. The end result would be a deeper appreciation by both partners for what the other does. I'm pretty sure the women no more "deserve" a week's vacation than the men do at a town that supplies oil rigs with workers.

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:49 pm

Sketchywallflowr wrote:I think it's kind of sad how the women assumed the town would go to pieces without them-

Having been in the situation more than once, it's about right.

Not to say the same wouldn't be true of men.

Nanda · Post by **Nanda** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:53 pm

Sketchywallflowr wrote:I think it's kind of sad how the women assumed the town would go to pieces without them

I think it's sad how often homes DO go to pieces without mom. It's ridiculous, and incredibly unfair to mom.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:54 pm

At least it would have been quiet, eh?

Nanda · Post by **Nanda** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:57 pm

Dutch! wrote:At least it would have been quiet, eh?

The kids are still there. And I may talk more in general, but it's at a much lower volume than the screaming power-struggle that goes on every time my husband and son have to interact for a few hours. I've been told that my house is louder when I leave. Fortunately, I'm not there to hear it.

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:00 pm

Studies suggest if men don't talk more than women, then there isn't much difference between the amount of talking they do.

Blackhole · Post by **Blackhole** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:18 pm

This kind of stuff makes me glad I'm a misanthropic loner. People suck.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:00 pm

I'm pretty sure that if you take any fairly well running system, and rip half of it out with minimum of preparation, that there would be issues. This isn't really a surprise, right?

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:09 pm

Just a joke, people. No need to drag out proof to the contrary.

Jessi_B · Post by **Jessi_B** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:32 pm

I think it's silly. Can we have an experiment where men leave the town, too?

It's stupid to think the town would fall apart without women, but it would be just as stupid to say that the men were unaffected by it. There's moms, sisters, significant others... ...there would be a different void there; a more sentimental/loving void, I think. Same thing goes if the men left town - the dads, the brothers, the significant others... ...their presence, their company is gone.

Sure, men could live without women, and women could live without men. There are some who would be just fine with the opposite sex gone, I'm sure, but it would be hard for a good number of people to deal with.

Personally, I wouldn't want to be without the guys in my life, especially my fiance, Matt. I tend to get along better with guys than girls, anyway.

Sketchywallflowr · Post by **Sketchywallflowr** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:35 pm

Wonder what the town would be like if all the children left... that's the real debate, isn't it? Who can handle the children "better"?

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:03 pm

Sketchywallflowr wrote:I think it's kind of sad how the women assumed the town would go to pieces without them.

Right or wrong... Touche.

- Joel Fagin

Birdie · Post by **Birdie** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:26 pm

These women would be much happier if they just spent the night at the Casa De Birdie...

Ahaugen · Post by **Ahaugen** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:08 pm

my town was in the running for this

Pimpette · Post by **Pimpette** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:10 pm

This sounds silly and I want to watch it at least once.. just to see how clueless some of these people are.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:25 pm

I usually don't let my gf lift a finger in my apartment. I'm always the one to cook (simply cause I like cooking) but she always insists on doing some cleaning. Being a guy, I am a tad bit filthier than her, so she feels uncomfortable because my room is filthier than what she's used to. Which doesn't mean that the room falls apart when she doesn't clean it, of course. To be fair, she says that she wouldn't like if I was too clean, because that wouldn't be too manly etc.
I also notice that whenever I try to cook something in some other place, at least two girls suddenly appear next to me and start to give me instructions. For some reason they just assume that being a man, I am incompetent in the ways of the kitchen. Never mind that I've been messing 'round cooking ever since I was a kid.

As other people said, this town might break apart without women, but it might as well without men. I don't think that this experiment proves anything. It might piss of a few men, but that's all.
I don't know, but none of these problems will solve until people finally accept the fact that current roles of men and women are not set in stone and that they're just arbitrary, you could say, products of accidental development of society. Society might have just as well, under these conditions, developed into matriarchy.
People always think that man has his place and woman has her place and that's it, no explanation. Others go further and argue that current roles of men and women are result of biology, ie that women can bear child and thus it's man's role to provide, which doesn't make much sence in modern society.
The only way I see to get rid of such prejudices is to stop educating children to be slaves to them. As soon as they're born, girls get dolls shoved into their hands, boys get balls and toy guns, and they are raised with conviction that that's the way it should be. If any girl is specially inclined to balls, she's called a tomboy and if the boy is inclined to playing with dolls, he's callled... well, I don't know what, but I know that I took a lot of bad jokes on account of that I liked to cook. Instead of just trying to push kids into molds, people might let children choose for themselves and then maybe a lot of these man/woman issues would be no more a problem.

Tellurider · Post by **Tellurider** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:49 pm

I think it's more like "what if half the adults in a town just left?" and the answer would be... lower unemployment rate? I don't know.

I will say this: having worked in an oilfield, I would have known that those men would be fine. Seriously, there is no way that a kid is more annoying than getting soaked with drilling mud from a blowout. And I hate kids.

Komiyan · Post by **Komiyan** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:31 pm

I would watch it, cause trashy TV is fun to have on while you draw or something.

Wonder how they got the whole town in on it, they wouldn't get me out of my house for a programme.