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(Boston Globe) Unlikely Researchers say women in positions of power would help businesses. "The culprits (of the financial crisis), one can't help but notice, were overwhelmingly male"   (boston.com) divider line 122
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I_Love_Verdi [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-05-03 06:21:10 PM  
Correlation/causation fail.

 
Roook [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 06:31:56 PM  
Boys are made of snails and puppydog tails!

 
yogaFLAME [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 06:32:43 PM  
Regular, or reverse cowgirl?

 
mediablitz [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 06:45:55 PM  
If we use the culprits as a guidepost, we need more Blacks, Asians, Latin Americans, etc. etc. etc.

/It's the old white man!

 
Mentat [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 06:45:55 PM  
img411.imageshack.us

CARLY FIORINA SMASH PUNY TECH COMPANY!

 
ToxicMunkee [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 06:46:45 PM  
I suck at math, therefore my business would fail.

 
84Charlie 2009-05-03 06:49:47 PM  
Does the name CARLY FIORINA mean anything to those assholes?

 
Quantum Apostrophe 2009-05-03 06:51:12 PM  
They were also overwhelmingly human. I say we put dogs in charge.

 
Chinchillazilla [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-05-03 06:51:30 PM  
mediablitz: If we use the culprits as a guidepost, we need more Blacks, Asians, Latin Americans, etc. etc. etc.

/It's the old white man!


I say we need more puppies running Wall Street.

 
nicksteel 2009-05-03 06:51:35 PM  
We need more information to narrow this down.

How many were left handed?

What was the average shoe size?

Actually, the only question worth asking is where did somebody find such a stupid group of researchers??

 
CruJones 2009-05-03 06:51:44 PM  
My observations have been that women are just as, if not more so, sneaky, ruthless, power hungry, etc....as men are.

I have no problem with that. But it seems that more women would not lead to less greed.

 
foo monkey 2009-05-03 06:52:03 PM  
Most women think
|----------------------------- THIS ------------------------------|
is six inches. I'm sure they'll save us from financial ruin.

 
tortilla burger 2009-05-03 06:52:04 PM  
I thought "bent over a desk" was a position

 
Chinchillazilla [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-05-03 06:52:05 PM  
/shakes tiny fist at Quantum Apostrophe

 
crab66 2009-05-03 06:52:05 PM  
Can someone explain how this makes any sense? Have women been proven to be less greedy than men and have better high pressure managerial skills in the last 10 minutes?

 
Benevolent Misanthrope [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 06:52:43 PM  
Quantum Apostrophe: They were also overwhelmingly human. I say we put dogs in charge.

But not chihuahuas. No one want's a president that just shakes and pisses all the time.

 
remus 2009-05-03 06:53:35 PM  
This just in; when something bad happens, doing the exact opposite isn't guaranteed to correct things.

 
newmoonpuppyhead 2009-05-03 06:56:26 PM  
It wasn't the gender, it was the culture.

 
crispyorganic 2009-05-03 06:56:36 PM  
What's needed are fewer greedy douchebags.

In general, I think, women are ambitious for the sake of ambition. Men, conversely, want to snort cocaine off of hookers' boobies, and fly around in phallic corporate jets.

So I would vote for more women CEOs.

 
TheyCallThisWork 2009-05-03 06:56:48 PM  
Study funded by the society of unmarried statisticians.

 
NCtim 2009-05-03 06:56:53 PM  
The culprits were overwhelmingly dEmOcrAts and their ilk. Get rid of the entire two-party system. (that was a period) Run on merit, and merit alone.

 
ilikeracecars 2009-05-03 06:57:05 PM  
foo monkey: Most women think
|----------------------------- THIS ------------------------------|
is six inches. I'm sure they'll save us from financial ruin.


If I was reading this on my desktop, it would be....

Greed is greed.

 
wademh 2009-05-03 06:57:19 PM  
Having worked in a few situations that had women in power, I saw no tendency toward ethical or rational behavior. To be clear, no tendency for or against, but perhaps a tendency in women, non exclusive to women, to avoid listening to anyone who was not their boss.

 
olddinosaur 2009-05-03 06:57:27 PM  
On a related note, the people who own the Boston Globe can't figure out why they are going bankrupt.

 
bingethinker [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 06:57:42 PM  
Yeah, women never make decisions that are stupid or illogical or self-centered.

/I think I just sprained something rolling my eyes

 
foo monkey 2009-05-03 06:57:51 PM  
remus: This just in; when something bad happens, doing the exact opposite isn't guaranteed to correct things.

gisellezayat.files.wordpress.com

My name is George. I'm unemployed and I live with my parents.

 
kbotc 2009-05-03 06:59:39 PM  
NCtim: The culprits were overwhelmingly dEmOcrAts and their ilk. Get rid of the entire two-party system. (that was a period) Run on merit, and merit alone.

You can't spell Democrat without emo!

democrats. Get it?
*nudge nudge*

What's that hook?

 
RTFarticle 2009-05-03 06:59:52 PM  
The culprits were dirty cheese-eaters! God damn the cheese!!!

 
Hollerin Charlie 2009-05-03 07:00:52 PM  
Most of them graduated from college, so let's put high school dropouts in charge!

 
wademh 2009-05-03 07:01:04 PM  
crab66: Can someone explain how this makes any sense? Have women been proven to be less greedy than men and have better high pressure managerial skills in the last 10 minutes?

The few women I have seen rise high in business have done so by outdoing others at the good-old-boys type networking. It may be an issue that it is easier for men to rise on merits but the point at hand is that there just are not many good examples of women in higher management that I would point to.

 
Rubberband Girl [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 07:01:47 PM  
I think the problems isn't so much "culprits...were overwhelmingly male" so much as they were overwhelmingly douche bags.

/NOT a fan of stereotypes.
//Including the "all women are better then all men" crap.

 
One Bad Apple 2009-05-03 07:02:47 PM  
A Sunday night FARK gender war thread ? Someone didn't get lucky on last nights date

 
DeadZone 2009-05-03 07:03:13 PM  
Women will do it better...
www.thatsweird.net
...or at least have better decorated cells.

/also, that's hotlinked.

 
Chinchillazilla [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-05-03 07:06:08 PM  
Rubberband Girl: I think the problems isn't so much "culprits...were overwhelmingly male" so much as they were overwhelmingly douche bags.

/NOT a fan of stereotypes.
//Including the "all women are better then all men" crap.


Yes to all of this.

/I know some awesome guys
//and some really, really, ridiculously terrible girls

 
Goodfella 2009-05-03 07:06:22 PM  
The author of tfa is a jagoff. I guess they should also start replacing male major league baseball players with women because it seems that such a large portion of players busted for steroid use were males.

 
Subtle Correction 2009-05-03 07:06:31 PM  
84Charlie: Does the name CARLY FIORINA mean anything to those assholes?

Capital letters are an invitation for anagrams, right?

CARLY FIORINA

I CRY FOR ANAL, I

Damn vowels

 
Subtle Correction 2009-05-03 07:08:19 PM  
RTFarticle: The culprits were dirty cheese-eaters! God damn the dirty cheese!!!

FTFY

 
MrShinra 2009-05-03 07:09:50 PM  
I_Love_Verdi: Correlation/causation fail.

Approves of the Logic used:

1.bp.blogspot.com

 
40oz_A_Knight 2009-05-03 07:10:02 PM  
Check out this sloped-forehead mouthbreather from the comment section in TFA:

"marvcook, when dealing with institutional sexism, it's impossible to be sexist against dominant groups, such as white people or men. The business world, institutionally, has been sexist and racist. Finding ways to incorporate women and other minorities is always a good thing.

Having diversity is the key here; more diversity means more ways to think about things. Women and other minorities have been historically disenfranchised; insisting that it's a good thing for white, hetero, Christian, upper-middle class men to lose privilege isn't unreasonable."


I have a hard time believing this isn't a troll. A majority of studies that have attempted to determine whether placing minorities or women on corporate boards improved corporate behavior and legal compliance showed that they made no difference. When all the empirical evidence is against you, dig in deeper, I guess. The problem in the financial crisis isn't the testicles, it's the brains.

 
Seandave 2009-05-03 07:11:19 PM  
If this country were run by vegetarian women instead of flesh-eating men...

/wank-wank

 
Chinchillazilla [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-05-03 07:11:49 PM  
40oz_A_Knight: Check out this sloped-forehead mouthbreather from the comment section in TFA:

"marvcook, when dealing with institutional sexism, it's impossible to be sexist against dominant groups, such as white people or men. The business world, institutionally, has been sexist and racist. Finding ways to incorporate women and other minorities is always a good thing.

Having diversity is the key here; more diversity means more ways to think about things. Women and other minorities have been historically disenfranchised; insisting that it's a good thing for white, hetero, Christian, upper-middle class men to lose privilege isn't unreasonable."

I have a hard time believing this isn't a troll.


Hahaha: it's impossible to be sexist against dominant groups, such as white people or men.

YOU'RE JUST SEXIST AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE.

 
robohobo 2009-05-03 07:12:18 PM  
Randomly, i would fark the shiat out of martha stewart.

also, women really can't ever work together. just a simple fact.

 
Subtle Correction 2009-05-03 07:15:01 PM  
40oz_A_Knight: Check out this sloped-forehead mouthbreather from the comment section in TFA:

"marvcook, when dealing with institutional sexism, it's impossible to be sexist against dominant groups, such as white people or men. The business world, institutionally, has been sexist and racist. Finding ways to incorporate women and other minorities is always a good thing.

Having diversity is the key here; more diversity means more ways to think about things. Women and other minorities have been historically disenfranchised; insisting that it's a good thing for white, hetero, Christian, upper-middle class men to lose privilege isn't unreasonable."

I have a hard time believing this isn't a troll.


Please go read this. Link (new window)

I would go there myself, but my head generally asplodes.

 
vsync 2009-05-03 07:16:37 PM  
Came in to mention Carly Fiorina but saw that's already covered.

Oh well, bears repeating.

Carly Fiorina

/that is all

 
Zer0ne 2009-05-03 07:16:55 PM  
Fine. As long as they stop having them work in the warehouse with me, where they're pretty much useless. Equal my ass.

 
kbotc 2009-05-03 07:17:16 PM  
Chinchillazilla: 40oz_A_Knight: Check out this sloped-forehead mouthbreather from the comment section in TFA:

"marvcook, when dealing with institutional sexism, it's impossible to be sexist against dominant groups, such as white people or men. The business world, institutionally, has been sexist and racist. Finding ways to incorporate women and other minorities is always a good thing.

Having diversity is the key here; more diversity means more ways to think about things. Women and other minorities have been historically disenfranchised; insisting that it's a good thing for white, hetero, Christian, upper-middle class men to lose privilege isn't unreasonable."

I have a hard time believing this isn't a troll.

Hahaha: it's impossible to be sexist against dominant groups, such as white people or men.

YOU'RE JUST SEXIST AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE.


Hahahah. I like the part in bold. You know, they can't earn a spot in business according to this woman, they must be given it, I guess they are not capable of getting there themselves. She's sexist against women herself without realizing it.

 
Subtle Correction 2009-05-03 07:17:19 PM  
I meant this link:
Link

 
LargeCanine 2009-05-03 07:19:17 PM  
Ahem. Jamie Gorelick

The culprits were overwhelmingly politicians and their toadies.

 
mediablitz [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 07:20:58 PM  
CruJones: My observations have been that women are just as, if not more so, sneaky, ruthless, power hungry, etc....as men are.

I have no problem with that. But it seems that more women would not lead to less greed.


My military years taught me women were FAR more hard core, gung-ho, "I can out MAN you" than the men, when put in the same role.

Carly is a good example of that in the Business world.

/had to use the ONE example as justification

 
altinos 2009-05-03 07:20:58 PM  
insisting that it's a good thing for white, hetero, Christian, upper-middle class men to lose privilege isn't unreasonable.

Sounds like me...wait, I'm atheist. I guess I get to keep my "privilege".

:)

 
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