The American Prospect: "Is it sexist to say the financial crisis was caused by men?"

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2009-05-19 20:27

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'Welcome to our second installment of "Ask a Feminist," in which our own Dana Goldstein and Ann Friedman address a topic in the news related to gender and feminism. Today's episode features a question from Matt Yglesias: "Is it sexist to say the financial crisis was caused by men?"'

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...by women.

I mean, men buy big houses that their wives want them to buy, and women are notoriously bad for buying things on credit well beyond their means. So the housing crisis must therefore be entirely the fault of females.

Oh, and the housing collapse is what led to the financial meltdown...

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Submitted by Paragon on Thu, 2009-05-21 12:13

would it be racist to say the financial crisis was caused by whites?
-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Thu, 2009-05-21 12:30

Another thought. Women are the vast majority of school teachers, shouldn't they be held accountable for the failures in the education system?

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Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2009-05-21 23:52