Lynn Thomas: The gender reversal of powers is a matter of life or death

To The Daily Sun,

From Time magazine special issue, fall 1992, page 74 (yes, 1992, but please read) in answer to "What should humankind aim to accomplish in the coming decades?"

Columbian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez:

"The only new idea that could save humanity in the 21st century is for women to take over management of the world. I believe that male hegemony has squandered an opportunity of 10,000 years. We men have belittled and ridiculed feminine intuition, and on the other hand, we have historically sanctified our ideologies, almost all of them absurd or abominable. The masculine power structure has proved that it cannot impede the destruction of the environment, because it is incapable of overcoming its own interests. For women, on the other hand, preservation of the environment is a genetic vocation. The reversal of powers is a matter of life or death."

Lynn Thomas

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