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Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost

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You're looking at this with statistical, risk management. There's a subset of risk management that focused on what's called "catastrophic," risk management. That's when the impact of the event, which is rare but can happen, is so high that one is willing to go the extra mile to prevent it. This includes obvious examples like nuclear powerplants having ridiculous security or classified systems being air gapped with de…

This is the most insightful response I've received this entire thread. Thanks for sharing. I'm not sure how I feel about the idea that women are viewed as potential catastrophes. That's probably just where we're at with identity politics these days.

Thanks! It's not a good situation. I don't think it's identity politics so much as specific practices that leverage media, corporate and viral social, to severely punish people for alleged crimes without evidence other than presence and claims of a woman. Another commenter described it like a superweapon that women can use against men working with women. If folks are using a superweapon and it only works on men working with women, then the mere existence of it will lead to men aiming for prevention to remove the circumstance that gives the superweapon power: women's presence.

I'd rather the superweapon not exist or be used only based on stronger evidence given its catastrophic effects. Otherwise, we're back to men wanting control over their lives/careers minimizing catastrophes by treating women as potential catastrophes. If not in general, then they'll do it for private or couple-looking meetings with them. As we're seeing.

Re: Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost

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This sort of fear-based hypercorrection, a misguided but not necessarily ineffective form of risk avoidance, happens in many walks of life. The same calculus is at the root of non-lower-class whites (as well as nearly everyone of high status) in the US avoiding neighborhoods with blacks and latinos. To them, the visible race serves as a proxy to all sorts of unpleasantness they wish to avoid, purely on correlation, a…

It's not perceived. Certain neighborhoods don't want some white guy strolling through. I was raised on the naive liberal ideals of the 90s ("I don't see race," etc) was served a dose of reality when I moved to Philly. I had a black friend and coworker, and when I walked on Giraud she'd get nervous about me. People would grimace at me, and mutter "white bitch" under their breath. Being as naive as I was, I was complet…

What neighborhoods would those be?

Re: Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost

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This was utterly, utterly predictable, and I'm sure the same dynamic is playing out in milder, more insidious forms in industries that are less openly regressive than Wall Street. I said as much to many of my friends during the nascency of the movement, and was baffled at how novel a concept it seemed to all of them. This isn't fair to women, of course. But Water flows downhill, and people follow incentives. If you c…

This happened to me. I started on a journey of transitioning to a woman and gathered a group of friends at work composed of women. They supported me for a few years helping me through the process. Then recently (as of this year), a woman came forward claiming I was harassing, intimidating, and sexually abusing her. This woman was one of the people who had supported me previously. She had been gunning for my position…

Many liberal sentiments can be weaponized against marginalized people. Just Google "Speaker's Corner anti-feminism", or for a more recent example, "Eli Erlick Ariana Grande"

Re: Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not perceived. Certain neighborhoods don't want some white guy strolling through. I was raised on the naive liberal ideals of the 90s ("I don't see race," etc) was served a dose of reality when I moved to Philly. I had a black friend and coworker, and when I walked on Giraud she'd get nervous about me. People would grimace at me, and mutter "white bitch" under their breath. Being as naive as I was, I was complet…

What neighborhoods would those be?

The anecdote in question was mostly between 14th through 20th and Giraud in Philly.

Re: Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost

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> Dr. Ford came forward before he was nominated. You know that Kavanaugh was shortlisted by Romney during the 2012 presidential campaign? Predating Dr. Ford's timeline for documenting the alleged abuse during therapy.

I mean if your theory is that she just randomly picked someone from Romney's shortlist of Supreme Court judges and decided to expose herself to a whole bunch of death threats, vileness, and potentially lose her job in the thought that it would discredit him I guess that's theoretically possible. It goes against logic and human nature and compared to the alternate hypothesis of a drunk teenager did something inappropr…

You do realize that she went public with accusations after Trump’s nomination of Kavanaugh? What happened years ago was only privately documented.
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