User blog comment:Cer-El/What if all real-life women had superpowers?/@comment-4867780-20130521215835

Power excites the primal greed and selfishness all apparently civilized people bear within, so it tends to turn pretty decent people into heartless jerks fairly quickly (seriously). So what to say about supernatural power ? On a global scale ?

Most people would use their newfound powers to get their way without much regards for others' well-being, some categories of powers are bound to be superior to others, and given their radical practicality, a world of metahumans would quickly turn into an indian-like cast system were your entire existence depends on your power weight, with sub-human at the bottom and gods at the top - basically multiplying the discriminations and unfairness of real life to super-levels.

So if only one gender would have powers, you can be pretty damn sure the (literally) powerless gender would be slaves to the other, in facts if notin name. Though is would probably be less harsh if women were the chosen gender (generally more caring due to their maternal nature).