Fractelle,:-)
re The tomayto, tomarto bit why not simply quote and do the rest of the song quote. "let's call the whole thing off" (they were singing about arguing)if my tired addled brain cell recalls it correctly.

You're getting sucked into Whistler's rant just don't bite. Wait until they have the guts to run it as a topic. Then debate it...as I probably will try....with some degree of rationality.

Pericles
You naughty boy, me thinks you wrote your piece with tongue in cheek?
Mind you I survived 30 of married life (?) by nodding a lot to the dept of war and finance. ;-)

I do not see the gender issue in this thread.
There is no doubt that there are less women in the decision making end of the financial sector and whether this means women are more honest or just smarter is debatable.
Reform of the financial monster is absolutely needed, that managers can hide behind a corporate structure is out-right criminal and I would suggest this also applies to shareholders, many of whom are ourselves via pension funds, insurance, savings, etc.
Perhaps we are more complicit in this than we all care to admit.
I know there is propaganda about ethical investing, (no weapons manufacturers) but do you know where your super is invested or what investments are propping up your home and content insurance.

Pericles, it is an act of breathtaking cowardice to blame women under male supervision for the failure of a testosterone soaked industry.
did you think no-one would notice?

examinator, there have been several threads on this forum concerning the provision of a women's legislature, most of which can be accessed from this site http://2mf.net, the most recent the inspiration for the most recent post on the site.

Sadly, I have to heed my more temperate advisers on this, and refrain from responding to your nonsense, whistler.

But just for the record.. nah, forget it.

Have a great day too, if you can.

*"women crash the global economy and then run around endlessly nagging men to do something about it"*

ROFL.. hehe.. Fractelle, one thing you don't seem to get is Pericle's
sense of humour.

Besides, he does have a point. Who runs up those huge credit card
bills most of the time?

My first wife had the shopping gene, go shopping to feel better.
What a disaster!

Like my wise old uncle used to say " A man can earn it by the
truckload, a woman can spend it with her little finger".

It was not too much saving that caused the problem, but too much
spending.

misogyny is funny, Yabby?

used to be fair dinkum, authentic, hard-core, psycho misogynists a century ago.
achieving the vote for women was a real challenge.
these days all that's left is your limp-wristed, girlyboy, cream puff, fairy floss variety
who when the crunch comes
in the form of a Referendum on a women's legislature,
will vote exactly how their women folk tell them to vote.
they even tell us so!