That article is so good.
But the men that need to read it the most still won’t believe it. /sigh
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I assure you, the gender bias is real.
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OMG
THIS WAS THE PLOT OF MOONLIGHTING AND REMINGTON STEEL!
For fucks sake!
We are now actively living 80s night time dramas?
Have we gone backwards in time?
What the actual fuck!
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There’s been a lot of research that shows women entrepreneurs have better return on average than men: 1, 2, 3 – i.e., the magic invisible hand of the market itself proves women are up against an irrational bias
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Jesus that was sad.
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Have you seen “Where to Invade Next” the Michael Moore doc?
Its hilarious and amazing.
When he gets to Iceland he talks to bankers, specifically women bankers, because their bank (invest firm, whatever) was the only bank that survived the financial meltdown. The reason is simple: they only invested in things that they understood and made sense. So they never invested in the crazy american mortgage schemes. So they survived the meltdown. Al the other banks, run by men, had taken crazy risks, invested in crazy schemes, and when it all collapsed… were all the men responsible were arrested and put in jail. The women are still in business.
I can just never forget that.
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No, but it sounds like an incredible watch
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Its really good. Not his usual shtick. Basically goes around the world to steal good ideas.
Like how France does school lunches, how the Italians do time off, how Iceland does equality, Finland does prisons. Its really really good. Worth a watch,
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It is. I second the recommendation.
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Yeah, but remember his (quite reasonable) conclusion? That really brought it home for me.
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As a Canadian, I think we need to stop comparing ourselves to our southern neighbours, and start comparing ourselves to France, Iceland, Finland, Italy, because OMG we do not measure up at all. Everyone needs to do better. Honestly, can the Aliens come and take over already? Cuz we have fucked it all up!
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I totally agree. Moore’s point that those countries often get their ideas from American information still stands, though. Either they keep doing something the US used to do but cut, or they implement something so they don’t wind up like the US (universal healthcare).
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OMG that whole bit about HOW Iceland put its bankers in prison when America failed to do so… was heartbreaking. They wrote the damn book on how to do it, and then… just… didn’t do it? Madness!
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Think about it like this: Canada is part of the Arctic Rim. Apart from the Scandinavian countries and Finland, with what other large countries do you share a lot of latitudes? Palinstan and Siberia. As a percentage of available population Canada does pretty well. Places like Norway and Finland are in US terms state sized. No wonder their problems are manageable.
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Well, Toronto is at 43°42′N latitude, just south of Florence, just north of Cannes. We are indeed an arctic country, but something on the order of 90% of the Canadian population huddles together for warmth less than 160 km from the US border.
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Now that you mention Cannes, I wouldn’t mind Canada taking more after modern-day France (as opposed to what it was when they colonised us).
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Yes, I did know that. I was appealing to the stereotypical European idea of Canada, which has you swathed in furs and mounted on snowshoes. Most British people have no idea of where Toronto is in relation to New York, where NY is in relation to London, and indeed how close the American South is to Washington.
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True story: this year on our annual summer road trip we opted to go “north” instead of our usual tour around the USA. I wanted to go as far “North” as possible! Which, in Ontario, is basically the 49th parallel… aka the “South” bit of the rest of Canada (excluding some of the maritimes). I mean I knew Toronto was south, I didn’t realize how far south! LOL Sometimes I wonder why the rest of Canada hates Toronto, and then stuff like this happens. 
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I had a friend of a friend from Calgary stay as a house guest one weekend (our mutual friend couldn’t host her at the last minute – long story).
We took a walk along the my neighbourhood’s boardwalk one morning, and she commented that she had totally forgotten Toronto was beside a major lake. Which was strange for a moment, because like any reasonably educated Canadian she could have easily pointed out all our major cities on a map, but as we chatted I realised it was because to her Toronto = Bay Street banking towers and not much else.
Then there’s the adult learners I taught in London, Ontario, who Would. Not. Believe. Me. when I told them they were wrong and that Toronto was not the capital of Canada, just Ontario.
Some of them also argued Prince Edward Island wasn’t a province, and didn’t know what I was talking about when I said Confederation was signed there.
Only the born-and-raised-in-Canada ones, though. The new Canadians had had to learn the capitals for their citizenship test, and were astonished they knew them better than the Canadians-from-birth. They also had a much more realistic handle on what role Toronto played in the province and country.
Of course, the new Canadians hadn’t been raised to resent and dislike Toronto from birth. It was a nice example of how ignorance and hate work together.
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HAHAHAHA!
So I lived in Calgary for four years (story for another time) and one time when visiting home I brought a friend who’d never been. As we making our final approach and passing over the great lakes my friend looking down at them was astonished at their size. “OMG they’re so big” - “…yes, we call them the GREAT lakes for a reason?” LOL
New Canadians know so much more about our country than we do, its pitiful.
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