How do you think Lord of the Flies would have gone if

[Fajita Jim]

it was schoolgirls instead of schoolboys?

Shower thought.

[TwisterCat]

A real thought experiment would be "what if it was a 50/50 split?"

[captainwiseass]

Well, Golding's point was that, specifically, British schoolboys would devolve into violent maniacs in these circumstances, so probably quite differently.

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I heard they were making a version of it with girls.
Of course when it was announced people started yelling "woke!"

As for the question, the book would be boring as hell. The girls would all sit down and organize a civil effective communal structure and thrive until rescued. In my experience women don't suffer from the machismo "king of the mountain" ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that we do. They don't let their egos run their lives.

[TwisterCat]

Publicado originalmente por tiny E:

I heard they were making a version of it with girls.
Of course when it was announced people started yelling "woke!"

As for the question, the book would be boring as hell. The girls would all sit down and organize a civil effective communal structure and thrive until rescued. In my experience women don't suffer from the machismo "king of the mountain" ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that we do. They don't let their egos run their lives.

Cattiness is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying though. Arguably worse than outright violence and murder.

[76561198356019466]

Publicado originalmente por TwisterCat:

Publicado originalmente por tiny E:

I heard they were making a version of it with girls.
Of course when it was announced people started yelling "woke!"

As for the question, the book would be boring as hell. The girls would all sit down and organize a civil effective communal structure and thrive until rescued. In my experience women don't suffer from the machismo "king of the mountain" ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that we do. They don't let their egos run their lives.

Cattiness is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying though. Arguably worse than outright violence and murder.

True, but I don't think it would be enough to effect a situation as grave as this. Men will actually put their ego above everything, however serious the circumstances, until it destroys everything. Women may cat fight, but at some point when they realize it's effecting everything else, they will stop, for the sake of the whole.

[Abaddon the Despoiler]

Publicado originalmente por Fajita Jim:

it was schoolgirls instead of schoolboys?

Shower thought.

We don't need to know of you thinking about school girls in the shower.

[St✩rlight]

Depends on the personal biases of the author I guess. Because it is just trashy fiction.

[St✩rlight]

Publicado originalmente por tiny E:

I heard they were making a version of it with girls.
Of course when it was announced people started yelling "woke!"

As for the question, the book would be boring as hell. The girls would all sit down and organize a civil effective communal structure and thrive until rescued. In my experience women don't suffer from the machismo "king of the mountain" ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that we do. They don't let their egos run their lives.

Girls kill each other.

[76561198356019466]

Publicado originalmente por Munithe EXT:

Publicado originalmente por tiny E:

I heard they were making a version of it with girls.
Of course when it was announced people started yelling "woke!"

As for the question, the book would be boring as hell. The girls would all sit down and organize a civil effective communal structure and thrive until rescued. In my experience women don't suffer from the machismo "king of the mountain" ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that we do. They don't let their egos run their lives.

Girls kill each other.

Not as much as we do.

[Abaddon the Despoiler]

Publicado originalmente por tiny E:

Publicado originalmente por Munithe EXT:

Girls kill each other.

Not as much as we do.

I think men are more likely to pull together in a survival situation. Women will ♥♥♥♥♥ at each other over nothing. If they don't have something to complain about, they will complain about that.

[St✩rlight]

Publicado originalmente por Abaddon the Despoiler:

Publicado originalmente por tiny E:

Not as much as we do.

I think men are more likely to pull together in a survival situation. Women will ♥♥♥♥♥ at each other over nothing. If they don't have something to complain about, they will complain about that.

Fine you can stay on boy island then, I'm going to girl island.

[Abaddon the Despoiler]

Publicado originalmente por Munithe EXT:

Publicado originalmente por Abaddon the Despoiler:

I think men are more likely to pull together in a survival situation. Women will ♥♥♥♥♥ at each other over nothing. If they don't have something to complain about, they will complain about that.

Fine you can stay on boy island then, I'm going to girl island.

I have been the only male working in an otherwise all female environment. It's not the fun you think it would be.

[St✩rlight]

Not for you, maybe.

[Goldias]

It'll be Deux ans de vacances instead.

[Nekoborg]

Publicado originalmente por Fajita Jim:

How do you think Lord of the Flies would have gone if

it was schoolgirls instead of schoolboys?

Shower thought.

Story Version:

Since the book was about just how primal human nature is; especially in the absence of authority then the story would basically be the same. The events might have played out differently but primal human nature would still shape those events.




Real Life Survival:

If it was real life then the outcome would most likely be different than the book regardless of gender. Primal human nature will still shape events but the struggles to survive will be more raw and gruesome. I predict a survival rate of 10% to 15%.

Most of the fatalities will be due to the inability to adapt to the elements of nature; mainly from waterborne pathogens and accidents.

The struggle to secure food and fire will eliminate more by starvation and exposure.

There will also be a few fatalities from violence.

Cannibalism is not off the table, desperate people do desperate things.





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