tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13094296.post111694503097695771..comments2023-10-26T06:26:18.223-04:00Comments on yave begnet: Tierney on women's preferencesyavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434935209549959812noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13094296.post-1117155067487168602005-05-26T20:51:00.000-04:002005-05-26T20:51:00.000-04:00As far as middle ground in this piece, Tierney doe...As far as middle ground in this piece, Tierney does say companies are better off if managed by women. I've gotten the impression from his other pieces that he's angling for the "contrarian moderate" label, like Brooks or Friedman. What he actually is remains to be seen. <BR/>Unfortunately, as much as we might like for views like his on "innate" capabilities to be extreme, I'd say they are held by many in the center of the American political spectrum. I was describing the world as it is, not as I'd like it to be. The question of why gender change has happened more slowly than other civil rights struggles is a complicated one (one likely to be addressed in a future post). Over time, the changes have been striking, but more change still needs to happen before Tierney's article would be considered beyond the pale by most people.yavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01434935209549959812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13094296.post-1116949242288554742005-05-24T11:40:00.000-04:002005-05-24T11:40:00.000-04:00I don't understand how trying to discuss the issue...I don't understand how trying to discuss the issues of women's "innate" (or non-innate, as the case may be) preferences is equivalent to "staking out the middle ground." One would think that after a certain degree of social progress, certain positions become simply unexceptable--thus the position between them is not representative of any real middle, but rather leaning toward extremism. For instance, were the same thing said about differences between racial groups, I think you'd have a harder time claiming that someone who says something as bogus as this guy is any kind of moderate (though extremists might try). The real question is, why do gender issues such as these keep getting revisited, and what degree of change is going to have to happen before someone like this sounds like a ridiculous bigot?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com