Looks like the ladies are taking over

Editor,

Many of us males might not like to read what I am about to suggest, but nevertheless we should probably take a good hard look at this trend because it most surely could affect our lives.

There seems to be a world-wide feminine movement toward solving the world's problems with their traits of dialogue, compassion, compromise, love, and nurturing rather than our more male traits of doing battle, confrontation, choosing up sides, duking it out, and may the best man win

Look what has happened just in the last few days: Nancy Pelosi was named as the first ever Speaker of the House of Representatives in the U.S. Congress. Hillary Clinton is probably high on the line-up charts to become the next president of these United States. And this the wire service: "French Socialist presidential candidate Segelene Royal [a charming and beautiful 53-year-old mother of four] won over two male rivals by garnering more than 60 percent of the vote, thus avoiding a second round in the nationwide election. She has promised to embody real change if she becomes France's first female head of state." Ms. Royal wants to write a new page in French history. She wants to "shake up the system."

Now, consider just these recent and rather major political positions, one settled and the the other two definite possibilities, going to the female gender, and add to that those in Central and South America, in Europe, and even in most every area of the world you can name and we must admit that there is a trend.

I am delighted to see this.

The state of the world in which arrogance, refusal to dialogue, angry confrontation, conflict above compassion, and greed above giving is the norm could change dramatically if more women came into political power and were successful in instilling the more feminine traits of dialogue, compassion, compromise, love and nurturing.

Look at it this way: If we had a matriarchal system, it would give us males more time to do what we enjoy and are good at. I leave that up to each of us to decide.

Bob McClellan

Polson