Termyn8or
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LOL Kit, you are probably right. But if he doesn't, there is always good ol me.
On the subject though, I think anytime anyone is put in a position they did not earn it is a bad thing. I don't think many people would disagree given the current US administration. But there is a flipside.
If it is true that Women who are as qualified, or possibly moreso are not put into these positions because of gender, then perhaps corrective action is needed. These old cliquish clans could probably run their companies into the ground all they want, but once publicly traded must comply.
We have hiring quotas here, for example for construction companies that take government contracts. This is gender and race.
Well there are certainly some jobs that they have trouble finding Women for, like bricklayer. I know a Woman, a tough one who might well be able to kick my ass. She is a hottie and I used to have a crush on her but she went lesbian so I ain't gettin none.
But she is tough and agile and her Uncle who owned a construction company sponsored her into an apprenticeship program in the local union. You gotta understand, being a union bricklayer is a tough job, and she could not hack it physically. That opportunity fell on her brother, who completed the program and is now a mason. But the original idea was to actually have a female bricklayer. Some Uncle eh ?
It would be a much better world if everything was awarded strictly on merit, but it is not. If you looked at Bush's resume and had the country's best interests in mind you would never in a million years consider letting him be President. He ran every business he touched into the ground, and now he is running this country into the ground.
This is a perfect example. Other motives were involved in making him President.
Now if it is indeed bigotry keeping Women out of the boardrooms in Norway, perhaps the action is justified. But there is another thing, something that I am going to state and is my opinion, and is drawn from life experience and some historical reference.
Men should run the world, but I mean MEN, not overgrown boys. Men who want to make the most money do not see skin color, they see green. Men do not see a vagina and breasts, they see a mind, a mind that might possibly help make money. Of course boys in some cases will hire Women just to be around them.
But Men, real Men who are hard to find at times think differently than Women. This is ingrained, and it happened naturally. The Woman will think more of the here and now while a Man thinks about the future.
I am not saying that the males who sit in the boardrooms are Men or think in the long term. In fact I find (in my own mind) that many are knee jerkers and don't belong in any position of power. But they are there.
The conditions that produced the yin vs yang way of thinking, that is concentrated on immediate needs in Women was caused by conditions that existed a long time ago. The Man had to plow, to reap a harvest later, meanwhile for the Woman, the kids need to eat every day.
Well conditions have changed and male have been emasculated, and I don't mean in the kinky aspect, I mean in the mind. Everybody goes for short term profits no matter what the price.
The disparity of the two minsets is disappearing. Many years ago you could rightly think that a White Man was most intelligent, and he actually was at one time, but this is not true anymore.
That leaves only one wrong thing about quotas. Taking something somebody built and forcing them into certain policies is wrong on any scale. Not when it comes to the product, but when it comes to the hiring and firing.
But it is not a perfect world. In any business I would hire the best person for the job, period. I look at a White I see green, I look at a Black I see green, I look at a nice rack I see green. This is the way business should be done, period. I think interviews should be conducted via some sort of IM, that removes all bigotry.
Remember that I have expounded on the difference between racism and bigotry, and have openly stated that I am indeed a racist, but not a bigot. So get this, I want the Black President. That's right, in the absence of a snowball's chance in hell for Ron Paul, I have to support Obama. And it is not that Hillary is a Woman, I am just against a few things (more) that she is for. White Men have been running this country into the ground for too long. Time for someone else to take a crack at it. I am not kidding.
Of course were they really Men ? Or were they overgrown boys ?
I too would be interested in what Aswad has to say about this. And as to the thread never ending, oh well.
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