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It has been fascinating to read since it considers how society could be if run only by women, given that the vast majority of landowners are men, majority of top politicians, business owners etc etc are men.

This is still tokenism. Promoting women into bad jobs just means that bad jobs have bad women in them. Carly Fiorina, Sarah Palin, Margaret Thatcher and Meg Ryan have proved that more than adequately.

Also, most men still aren't CEOs, politicians, landowners, or business owners, and very few men have a realistic chance of becoming any of these things.

The implication of this kind of tokenism is the suggestion that having testicles automatically you qualifies for these roles, by definition. The reality couldn't be more different, but it's a reality which the equality commission has always done its damndest to ignore.

Tokenism won't solve the problem. Creating new kinds of opportunity which allow for flexible entrepreunership and non-monolithic kinds of politics and business might be more useful.  

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 10:04:01 AM EST
having testicles automatically you qualifies

can you fix that?

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 10:05:55 AM EST
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I like your sig. Is it new?

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 10:35:25 AM EST
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Relatively recent. It's from The New Industrial State.

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 10:37:33 AM EST
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