It is a true fact (heh) that most of the the men that are “needed” to protect against violence would not be needed if there were no men.
I don’t think violence would be utterly absent in an all-female world.
But I do wonder how it’d be different. It probably would be, especially at first.
That is a singularity though of sorts and after that nothing is predictable.
Spitballing stuff here, but a lot of the patterns of female violence are heavily influenced by the fact that the average man is stronger than the average woman (indirect or self-directed aggression rather than direct, other-directed) so I guess that once you remove men a very important incentive to not be directly violent disappears. What happens next depends on whether women cling to the pre-existing relationship with violence as something that defines womanhood (case in which you’ll get a butch/femme specialization that will mimic current gender roles) or not (case in which shit’s going to look weirder). I doubt the quantity of violence will decrease either way – it’s a useful way to achieve one’s goals and if the men are no longer there to do it for us, we’ll end up doing it ourselves one way or another.
I’ve always wondered if that humans were altered to be non-sexually-dimorphic, would violence increase, decrease or stay the same?
Say women were made to be the same average strength, height, etc. as men, what would happen? (I say this way because almost no one wants to be physically weaker.)
My guess is an initial decrease in violence followed by it being about the same after 30-50 years. But like you that’s only spitballing!
If technological society continues, such widescale genetic experiments are almost certain to happen over the span of long time (within 10,000 years). Wish I could be around to witness.
Of course such talk like most radical changes itself offends people. I can understand why, sort of, but I just can’t not think. Chances are if I think of it that means one day someone will actually do it.
I can’t be bothered to look it up, but IIRC studies have shown that domestic violence rates are highest among lesbian couples, somewhat lower in heterosexual couples and lowest among gay men.
Lots of women kill children or elderly people who are supposed to be in their care.
Eliminating males would refocus violence in unpredictable ways but there’s approximately zero evidence that women are inherently less violent than men.