The folly of thinking gender and sexual orientation parity would save the world

"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." - Thomas A. Edison

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The most insightful comment on Does Wall Street Need an Estrogen Injection? (suggesting that more women would have prevented the financial crisis):

"What a sexist and silly concept. If a male proposed the same concept reversing male and female, he would have every feminist organization in the country on his ass. Women can be just as stupid, criminal and evil as men.

For years the left have maintained if women and gays ran the world , it would be a kinder, gentler, more peaceful planet. A simple look at history proves this is bovine scatology. The "Sacred Band of Thebes" shows how non-violent gays are, and Goldia Mier and Margret Thatcher, in this century, put the lie to the "Peace loving woman"."


Other interesting ones:

"Yes, it is true that women are in general more risk averse than men.

However, in mixed gender groups both men and women take more risks than either men or women do in single sex groups.

If we were to ascribe anything to do with the expansion of risk on Wall Street to gender it would be that recent decades have seen it become a mixed gender environment. Something which we know increases risk taking."


"I'm a neuroendocrinologist.

In primates, testosterone is released AFTER a male becomes alpha. It is not the case that testosterone increases aggression enough that males can become alpha; it's that becoming alpha causes the testosterone.

Increased testosterone in Wall St. traders was probably an EFFECT of "winning" and not a cause of risk-taking.

And by the way, in the brains of males, there is an enzyme called aromatase which converts testosterone to estrogens. It's actually estrogens that have the effects on the brain.

But I realize stereotypes are more fun..."


"Why not ask the equally misleading question, "If Wall Street had more pygmies, Mongolian Yak herders, three-eyed people, etc., would we have averted the financial crisis?""


Other comments deal with the real reasons why women are underrepresented in finance (and, by extension, the corporate world - one of which is that the Club discriminates against non-members [i.e. most men as well], and not just women), and how successful women are just like men.

And of course insults like the following are ignored (while the reverse would be pounced upon):

"Keep it up guys -- we understand your little wee wees are the centers of your universe."