Whistler, it's true that most of the behaviours that brought about the current economic crisis were behaviours adopted by men. However, that's merely as a consequence of the fact that most economic control at a corporate level is exercised by men. I see no evidence that females in similar positions (yes, they are a very small minority) have acted any differently from the men.

The only reason females are in a tiny minority in corporate administration is because their career paths are severely interrupted due to their family responsibilities. Responsibilities that men have yet to embrace, and this neglect of male responsibility has been encouraged throughout history. It's been encouraged because those in control are, you guessed it, men. When the few women who rise to the top are given their chance to perform guess what? They basically continue to perform as men have performed, with all the varieties of honesty, corruption, greed, efficiencies, ineptness, responsibility and irresponsibility traditionally displayed by men in similar positions.

Hmm, I see Antiseptic is now becoming quite obsessed with me.

He writs a 9 word post, and mentions our screen names 6 times, and 3 times in tandem with each other.

Nice to see our sad little misogynist has a new "hobby".

Antiseptic "I'm prepared to take your word for that. It was either feminists or raving loonies, so I'm glad we've cleared that up."

yes I think a few of us are now recognising in Whilsters posts the demented ravings of the pathelogically incompetent.

as to TZ52HX

if it posts like a troll and responds like a troll, it is a troll...

and the best advise I have ever received is

"Don't Feed the Trolls"

:-)

TZ52HX, excellence achieved under supervision is fraught with parody.

women's legislatures enables women to be their own bosses.

also enables men to assume family responsibilities otherwise delegated to women.

Col Rouge:""Don't Feed the Trolls""

Oh, but it followed me home, can't I keep it? Its legs are so lovely and hairy and although it's not house-trained yet, I'm sure it can be taught to behave itself eventually. We still have the animal-training gear that the PALE girls dropped during their last raid, when they "freed" the goldfish. What a shame it turns out that goldfish aren't usually herded with cattle-prods. Still, it's the thought that counts.

If it turns out that this troll can't be trained, we can always export it to Coventry.

I think that whistler has, in this thread, set a new benchmark for the definition of "enigmatic". This is a true classic of the genre.

>>excellence achieved under supervision is fraught with parody<<

(The etymology of enigma is illuminating: "Lat. aenigma, from the Greek ainigmat-, ainigma, derived from the verb ainissesthai lit. 'to speak in riddles', whose root is ainos - 'fable'". It's that last bit that I find intriguing.)

Of course, it could very well be, given the tediously circular nature of whistler's contributions, that we are ourselves being taken for a ride, and the entire thread is "fraught with parody". The moebius strip of her logic insists on returning to the impenetrable concept of "women's legislatures", but every attempt to elicit detail on how this would function in real life has so far failed.

I am reluctantly forced to the conclusion that we, the "voice of sanity" contributors to the thread have, in fact, been taken for a monumental ride.

My theory is that whistler is in fact a first-year sociology student at ANU, filling her term paper with chortles on the gullibility of men when faced with the suggestion of a preposterous proto-feminist - possibly even Amazonian - concept of government.

Alternative theories welcome.

After all, it has been fun. For which, thanks.