Is not something I have observed among women any more than among men. In fact, I don't really know what it means. You think women see other women as competition, but men don't look at their coworkers or other men that way? Hunh.
oh, come on Crayons! take a hypothetical play sandbox out on a playground
put in 3 little boys, say age 8, give them toys appropriate to sandbox playtime, and the boys will mostly "cooperate" in competitive games.
take 3 little girls, same age, give them their toys, and two of the little girls will gang up "verbally on the other one. what amuses me is many on the feminist left just refuse to acknowledge that boys and girls on average have cognitive, aptitude, and perceptual differences, and ironically on the other hand they insist because of "identity politics" that women should have their own caucuses, business support groups, safe zones, and that little boys who are naturally boistrous need to be dumbed down by Ritalin because they intimidate the little girls.
hence the feminization of the primary school curriculum and a generation of female teachers who haven't a clue as to how to discipline little boys. this wouldn't be too big an issue, but since it has lead to the decline in grad rates among little boys as they are bored stiff with the feminized curriculum, it is in effect a war on boys perpetrated by the educational establishment and the teachers unions.
on a related note:
that poor old Clintonoid Larry Summers, who just had the temerity to once speak the truth about the differences between men and women. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Women want Larry Summers off Don’t back him for CabinetBy Christine McConville | Sunday, November 16, 2008 |
http://www.bostonherald.com A controversial comment at a Cambridge conference may cost former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers a second stint in the Cabinet.
“I’m concerned about his judgment and ability to listen,” said Nancy Hopkins, a biology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and one of the many women who say they are concerned about Summers’ rumored appointment as President-elect Barack Obama’s Treasury secretary.
In 2005, Hopkins walked out of an academic conference after Summers, the keynote speaker and the president of Harvard University at the time, said that innate differences between men and women might be one reason fewer women succeed in science and math careers.
Summers and his defenders have said that he was only putting forth hypotheses based on the scholarly work assembled for the conference, and the conference organizer has said that Summers was asked to be provocative.
Still, the ensuing outcry played a role in his eventual ouster as Harvard’s president and paved the way for the university’s first female president, Drew Faust.
And now women’s groups have expressed so much outrage over Summers’ possible appointment that, according to top Democratic sources, his name may even have been stricken from the short list.
Summers currently works as a Harvard professor, and was not available for comment.
But one of his former students, Sheryl Sandberg, has been defending him.
“Larry has been a true advocate for women throughout his career,” wrote Sandberg, now the chief operating officer at Facebook, on the blog Huffington Post.
“In 1992, as Chief Economist of the World Bank, Larry argued in front of the world’s Finance Ministers that the highest return investment they could make in their economies was to educate their girls,” she wrote.
Rumors of Summers as the next Treasury Secretary come after he spent a year as one of Obama’s top economic advisers.
Sandberg, who worked for Summerts at the World Bank and then at the U.S. Treasury Department during the Clinton administration, has said he would be an excellent choice.
“Many people note that our nation has few economists with his intelligence,” she has written. “They should also know that we have few leaders, if any, in the financial world who have done more for women.”
Other women disagree.
Just after Obama won, National Organization for Women president Kim Gandy told the Huffington Post she had “mixed feelings” about Summers, saying he doesn’t “get” the economic implications of gender-based wage disparities.
The New Agenda, a nonpartisan women’s rights group, issued a press release, saying Summers’ “record of derogatory comments aimed at women ensures that his selection would be divisive and thus distract from efforts to fix the economy.”
And the Rosalind Franklin Society, which promotes women in the life-sciences field, has urged Obama to appoint “someone whose qualifications have not been compromised.”
Hopkins said that locally, anti-Summers sentiment began during his tenure as Harvard’s president.
Female faculty members tried to talk to him about the dwindling numbers of women faculty, “but he doesn’t listen,” she said.
And now with the world economy in upheaval and financial experts uncertain of what move to make next, she said, “to have someone who can’t listen, that’s a real concern,” she said.
Other possible contenders for the Treasury post include New York Federal Reserve Chairman Timothy Geithner and New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, a former Goldman Sachs executive who has served in the Senate
http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view/2008_11_16_Women_want_Larry_Summers_off:_Don_t_back_him_for_Cabinet/
