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If you read Bad Blood, there are some segments that cover the role her gender played. For a couple of the key initial investors, they were clearly willing to

If you read Bad Blood, there are some segments that cover the role her gender played. For a couple of the key initial investors, they were clearly willing to look the other way and give her a pass on certain behaviors because they wanted her to be successful. George Shultz also saw her as a certain sort of daughter figure and went out of his way to protect her against accusations of fraud. She also emulated the mannerisms and speech patterns of male peers when presenting herself. Personally, I don't much care for bringing it up too much. No one discusses the role gender played in Madoff's ponzi scheme because it wasn't really relevant to the case. It seems an unfair double standard to bring it up when a woman is accused of it.

DoreenMichele 5y ago
She slept with a male investor. I don't think I dared voice my suspicions beforehand but was distinctly unsurprised when that detail came out. Men being able to hype their bullshit (edit: I mean outright fraudulent business plans) because they garnered backers via the casting couch isn't typical as far as I know. So I think her gender is pertinent and as a woman I have spent a lot of time trying to sort out how one gets taken seriously for your work. And people finding it rude or something for me to want to discuss that are people essentially telling me "We can't let you figure out how to succeed because your interest in figuring that out is excessively gauche. So just stay poor and continue to go hungry. It sucks to be you and you aren't allowed to aspire to having it not suck."
- encryptluks2 5y ago
  Not only did she sleep with them, but also said that he manipulated her to commit fraud playing the role of a victim of abuse. It was even made public that she formulated her victim defense strategy. It may work to an extent but imagine a male trying to say that they were victimized into commiting a crime.

DoreenMichele 5y ago

She slept with a male investor. I don't think I dared voice my suspicions beforehand but was distinctly unsurprised when that detail came out. Men being able to hype their bullshit (edit: I mean outright fraudulent business plans) because they garnered backers via the casting couch isn't typical as far as I know. So I think her gender is pertinent and as a woman I have spent a lot of time trying to sort out how one gets taken seriously for your work. And people finding it rude or something for me to want to discuss that are people essentially telling me "We can't let you figure out how to succeed because your interest in figuring that out is excessively gauche. So just stay poor and continue to go hungry. It sucks to be you and you aren't allowed to aspire to having it not suck."

encryptluks2 5y ago
Not only did she sleep with them, but also said that he manipulated her to commit fraud playing the role of a victim of abuse. It was even made public that she formulated her victim defense strategy. It may work to an extent but imagine a male trying to say that they were victimized into commiting a crime.