Stereotypes Gone Wild

Katie Kieffer on Obama’s feminist face in bringing Wall Street to heel:

There are three women on Wall Street who have literally gone wild. No, they didn’t strip off their matronly suits on a GGW spring break tour bus. Rather, they are on a mission to strip Congress, small businesses and individual Americans of proper authority, rights and freedoms and replace these with their own rules and regulations for how to play the financial game on both Wall Street and Main Street.

These three women, who graced the May 24 cover of TIME Magazine and were touted as the “Sheriffs of Wall Street,” are an embarrassment to my sex. Rather than advancing equality between the sexes, their self-centered political agendas do the following:

  1. Send the message that women do not understand finance or business, and this makes them insecure. So, they use their authority to control and regulate finance and business.
  2. Reinforce the notion that the only way men will take women seriously is if they exert “control” over men.
  3. Teach young women to prioritize power over finding solutions.
  4. Dismiss equality entirely and send the message that women should referee men and dole out red cards – not play the soccer game with them.

Let me introduce you to these women, one by one. You can decide if they are on a mission to “protect consumers” or if they are on a quest to disprove an imagined bureaucracy of male chauvinists on Wall Street. If the latter is their goal, then the bigger question is whether cracking down on business and the financial industry is a good way to achieve this goal.

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3 thoughts on “Stereotypes Gone Wild

  1. Republicans scared of women in power

    That’s been the big meme on the left this past few years; criticism=”fear”. Like how the Tea Parties are all about “Fear”.

    I guess by responding to your comment, I’m “afraid”.

  2. It’s similar to your response to criticism of Palin and Bachmann as well. I don’t care for the response myself, but I’ve been trying to fit in with your commenters by using their argument tactics.

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