Do you ever wonder about the issue of your own personal significance and is it useful to question?. — Jack Cummins

If I had not existed, then I couldn't have a chance to think about the possibility that if I had not existed.

A nullification of the butterfly effect. — jgill

It strikes me as wishful thinking or a useful narrative device rather than a genuine possibility. — Banno

(From a personal perspective, someone would have come along a little later and advocated turning rock climbing into an athletic, gymnastic sport. No question.)

Going back in history there are very few female philosophers and it was only in the twentieth century that the voices of women became present. Also, there are issues of dominance by white people too. Even on this forum there are far less women. Whether this is marginalisation as such is hard to know. I once remarked to a female friend about the lack of females on a philosophy forum. She remarked that it may be because women have other things to do and may not have time to spend on philosophy sites.

As for whether it should matter in philosophy as to what gender one is or one's race is an interesting question because it depends if those factors come into play in philosophical understanding. There is the perspective of feminism which does look at the way ideas are constructed, such as the patriarchal aspects of religion. Also, sociology could be seen as a branch of philosophy looking at the way reflect social structures and inequalities and their impact. The advance of sociology, especially in the 1970s may have given rise to more females, black people and marginalised voices.