http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/01/a-rant-abo…

Clay writes a rant about women

“They aren’t just bad at behaving like arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks. They are bad at behaving like self-promoting narcissists, anti-social obsessives, or pompous blowhards, even a little bit, even temporarily, even when it would be in their best interests to do so.”

This is why I primarily have the subject of “women” on my mental radar screen right now. I ask questions to discover rather than to nail and now I am left wondering about this meme of moxie. Carly Fiorina had moxie but it didn't help her one iota at HP.

When I think of Jeff Bezos, I immediately think of long-term thinking. Then I recall that unique laugh of his and that does not sound like a moxie laugh, it sounds like satyagraha. Gandhi coined the word satyagraha and Bezos in his own marvelous zen like way has it.

Holding onto your truth isn't something that one requires in volume but simply presence. I don't know who Bezos is a man and wouldn't know who he really is even if I met him, but I know satyagraha whenever I witness it, and Bezos has it.

Isn't moxie then really a euphemism for dealing with a short-term culture?

Please. It is a question to ponder, I present it as a rhetorical one that I will now go forward to mull and think about . . .

[Em]

I read research which suggested women tend to judge women more harshly. It is not the first time I have heard this particular assertion.

I am not to suggest at all that you have done this, but when I read the friendly aside “So, all is forgiven, Jerry (call me!).” it did make ever so slightly cringe with that minuscule atom of doubt nagging in the recesses of my mind.

Would you personally place any credence to the gender factor especially lets say in the moxie rating or would even the slightest suggestion of the gender question be irrelevant for the purposes of evaluation.

What (if any) is the role of gender in this framework?

[Em]