She's Come A Long Ways, Baby: Questions about Female Domination and Societal Evolution

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When I was dating my future wife, I was unhappy that she had the same attitude as my sister. My girlfriend was very pro female and said that women would be much more intelligent than men in the future and that she hoped for the day when women would rule. I recall when she was talking to my sister about our forthcoming marriage and telling her that I was going to obey her. My sister told me this and said that she agreed with my fiancée that I should obey her and this would result in a long and happy marriage.

My wife was one of four girls and they had had daughters themselves, so it was no surprise that our three children were all female. Of course, my wife was delighted, as were her family. Over the years I was gradually trained by my wife to accept the supremacy of females over males and our three daughters have grown up with seeing their mother as a more dominant parent than my father ever was.

In society in general, girls outshine boys by a long way in all education now, nearly every couple I know wants a daughter over a son, girls get jobs more easily than boys, most husbands are under their wives thumb and a lot of men I know work for a female boss. Just seeing the confident young women about town pushing around young men shows just how much things have changed. This was all predicted by my sister and her friends years ago. As a female, Elise, where do you see the role of females and males in another 20 years from now?