Comments on: Women + Business = Peace

By: Marian

Marian — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:23:52 +0000

I agree completely with Edward. The underlying, core mission of the organization is fabulous – economic empowerment = peace. However, I find the overarching gender-based approach divisive, condescending and limiting, drawing boundaries and categorizing in old, sterotypical, tired and unhelpful ways, ways that we as women have chaffed at for so long. Implying a sense of gender superiority seems so, well, unpeaceful, and I wonder why it even has to be added into the mix?

Further, if an organization were formed: men+business=peace, and a woman objected to its premise, would she be focusing on the minutiae or the heart of the matter? If you achieve fantastic results, and do it in ways that are exclusive, are they really all that fantastic?

By: Edward

Edward — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:27:12 +0000

It’s hard not to be distracted by the sexism, but I did acknowledge that economic interaction is the key to peace. I just wanted to make it clear that gender should be irrelevant.

By: Pamela Weinsaft

Pamela Weinsaft — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:27:25 +0000

I would tend to agree with you that blame can be counter-productive, Edward. However, what I also find counter-productive is the focus on minutiae over substance, which is what you are doing by focusing solely on the small quote from the founder of this organization about her motivation for starting it rather than the fantastic results it is achieving.

By: Edward

Edward — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:48:39 +0000

My only enemy is collectivism in all its forms. That includes sexism, and that includes sexism towards men.

I’m not here to help men, I’m here to fight for individuals. I find the Feminist myth that men are the instigators of all things evil not just empirically false, but counter-productive to any rational goal.

By: jessica

jessica — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:33:34 +0000

Wow Edward, you are not really helping your fellow men here are ya?

By: Edward

Edward — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:44:10 +0000

Yes yes, because men = bad, war, murder, destruction and women = peace, love, ya-di-f***ing-ya. Feminist mythology is really pretty tiresome.

Sorry, but peace is achieved through economic trade and interdependence. Doesn’t matter what the gender of the persons involved in business are.