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To: Joseph Silent who wrote (105097)	3/17/2014 4:45:08 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217804

Women doing anything they want to do and are capable of is good. But affirmative action is not. The idea "We need more women in xyz" is absurd. The current fashion is to bemoan the lack of women in corporate boards of directors. There is no barrier to entry. On the contrary, companies seek them because they like to display to customers, which include women, how modern they are. Company founders and creators are like bower birds. It's sexual display [my theory]. Companies are started by men and built up as far as they can take them. Women don't do it. A few start a perfume business or are handed the reins of an existing company. But I cannot think of any that were started from the ground up and turned into a world-beating champion. Certainly not with any engineering or computery aspects. The psychology of men and women is different from birth. There is a lot of instinct in humans - the fundamental driving forces are instinctual, as with chimps. We have a pretty good horsepower of intellect overlaid on our chimpoid brains but the foundations are not so different. We don't choose to be heterosexual males, or females, or homosexuals. We just are what we find ourselves to be. We don't decide, "Oh, I think I'll go with right-handed but left-eyed". We just find one day that we are right-handed. Or left-handed. There's a lot of pressure to be right-handed, for simple convenience. Things are designed for right-handed people. So choose right would be great. As a child I practised being ambidextrous, but it's hard work and while a level of achievement is doable, when the chips are down, the right comes to the fore. Affirmative action is unfair to talented people. For example, a black doctor or woman doctor [if affirmative action is strongly promoted] would be suspected of being a special needs doctor. People who are sick don't want to do affirmative action, they want the best doctoring they can get. If they suspect the black doctor is fake, helped along by affirmative action, they'll prefer a white one or Asian one who they know got their on their merits. It's unfair to the patient and the black doctor - the patient might get a bad doctoring service and the good doctor misses out on business. Far better to have a free market place with anyone able to hire anyone. Talented women and other "affirmative action" people would find they have an easier time of it than if they are "helped" along. Mqurice