Leah Norris

After 20 years of careful study of history, you have come to clearly understand one thing: men are the source of all the major problems of the human race. Men fight wars, invent nasty weapons to fight them, and then invent polluting factories to make the weapons. Just check out their track record: Hitler? A man. Stalin? A man. Genghis Khan? A man. George W. Bush? A man. Pol Pot? A man. Henry Ford? A man. Your father who abandoned you and your mother when you were 7? A man. Your ex-husband? A man. See?

Women are inherently kind and mothering. In a matriarchy things would work much more smoothly. No wars, much less conflict and bragging. All the competitiveness and nastiness that women show in this society is forced upon them. There is no other way to get by in a man's world. Plus, what woman wouldn't be angry at everything men have done to poor mother earth.

The only way to fix this is to make sure that women gained more power throughout history. As a respected scholar of feminist history, you were able to wrestle your way onto this panel. You have been studying trigger points carefully, and you think that it is possible to change things so that the modern US would be a matriarchy. Things would return to the peace that came before the overwhelming power of male gods and kings. People would live in harmony with nature and with each other.

And if you have to start some wars and kill some historical figures along the way, it will be well worth it. It's their own fault for being so violent to begin with.

Goals: You don't know all the historical events that will have an effect on your goals, but you have some places to start. Anything that will improve the lot of women should be considered.

• 1184BCE - The Trojan War - If Troy wins, Helen might be a hero rather than just a sexuality icon.
• 1938 - LSD Discovered - Drugs were a horrible distraction in the 1960s and 1970s. So much more progress could have been made by the women's movement without all the sex and drugs!
• Elvis - Symbols of sexuality only cause trouble. If you can get him out of the way, that could only improve things.
• 1981 - Assassination of Pope John Paul - The Catholic church has been a major foe of women. Assassinating a pope might reduce its power. Anything else you can support that would weaken the Catholic Church would help your sex.
• 2000 - George Bush Elected - W set back the women's movement in the US by 20 years. You have not found a way that Gore could possibly win, but your calculations suggest that if enough environmental disasters happen, Nader might win instead.
• 2052 - Aliens contact Mexico - Mexico is a backwards macho country. If the aliens contacted a country with a slightly more tolerable attitude towards women, the power would have wound up in better hands.