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@AndyOstroy 1/ Why do you think women, simply based on gender, will, when in similar positions of power, and with all the forces and pressures of the various offices, opportunities, and basic human frailty, will make any better or different decisions?
I'd love to know.
@AndyOstroy 2/ What is the essential qualitative difference that you are appealing to to make this statement. And of course, not just you, but the general "common wisdom" is making similar statements.
Do you think women are less suseptible to corruption?
@AndyOstroy 3/ Is there something essential to the gender "woman" that guarantees a better outcome? Or even different? What is it?
Seems to me this is a far more complex issue & question than such flat, simplistic statements can support.
@AndyOstroy 4/ How about this woman?
@AndyOstroy 5/ Or this one?
@AndyOstroy 6/ Maybe we should be making distinctions in our pronouncements that takes into account the values, objectives, goals, and meaning of what the F**ck we are talking about before spouting such broad brush nonsense.
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@Title9Jen HI, I'll come back later, prob on the morrow w a better summary w some links for you. I'll do a quick reply for the moment. JP has become something of a phenom. He does make some actual & apparent counter-intuitive to the current wisdom of the culture. This has provoked a
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@marymredoutey1 @sarahcpr @JaneMayerNYer @xeni Got it. No problem.
To be clear... I completely agree with the general sense of your reply. It is a proven fact, one I champion, that to improve any social system, esp at the level of families, towns,communities..women must be empowered. Not a little. A lot. And when they
@marymredoutey1 @sarahcpr @JaneMayerNYer @xeni are empowered, esp as to the family economics, education, and etc... everything starts getting better.
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@marymredoutey1 @sarahcpr @JaneMayerNYer @xeni 3/ lessen as the context of power changes. That ones character comes more to the fore rather than innate qualities of "woman" vs "man". It is my starting position that the discussion is confounded by political necessisties where the PC statement starts where this thread
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Moments like this seem to encapsulate the times. Like the GOP Senate candidate in MS, unable to recognize what she said & why it reveals something about her, who you are will eventually break the bonds of your rigid talking points & manicured image.
What could be, and needs to be learned from this episode is huge. It is something of a Rosetta stone into the psyche of this sector of our citizenry.
I do not mean it as a glib point, but as a serious data point in the quest to understand the mindset that increasingly
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