Beautiful businesswomen are viewed as untrustworthy 'femmes fatales' by both men and women (tr)

Daily Mail ^ | March 25, 2019 | Colin Fernandez

[samiam5]

I thought about killing myself, but that would only further the cycle of violence...

[BobL]

I actually worked very closely with smart, gorgeous, blonde. Still blows my mind, though.

[redgolum]

Good for you!

Working in engineering, I have seen it go both ways. Though the ones trying to get by on looks typically leave the field.

But I have always suscribed the the view of “I don’t care where you go pee, grab the $#%N TOOL AND LET’S FIX THIS PIG BEFORE IT GETS INTERESTING!”

I did find out that one of my engineers I trained later had to explain some of her rather colorful language to Dupont. Proud of what she has done, scared to think about that now in China there may be a line of enzymes known as “baby poo”

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Helen of Thomas, The Face That Sunk A Thousand Ships

[caww]

Well it is possible for an attractive woman to understand her looks can get in the way and develop skills to offset the natural attention men have to be distracted. Also to understand her peers will likely have jealousy issues...so it's a juggling act to sustain the focus on the business at hand initially. But over time people get it that she's a focused businesswoman.

[xrmusn]

Had the same ‘problem’ in the Asphalt World in the 70s.

90% of the laborers were Black and the worst thing you could do was promote one of the men to foreman.

The operators were generally White and a Black had to almost walk on water to ‘get off the ground’.

Making one a foreman was not doing him a favor, he lost his hourly rate for a Weekly Salary and did get a take home pickemup but the Whites didn’t ‘like’ him for general purposes (taking ‘orders’ not good) and the Blacks figured he had sold them out to the ‘Man’ and basically refused to take orders from him.

I got away from it in the early 90s and a friend of mine asked me to ‘babysit’ a job for him (early 2000s) and I was ‘amazed’ at the change.

Majority of the ground people were Spanish, operators and foreman Black with a ‘token’ Hispanic as foreman of a small crew.

Only change was the race, the Spanish around the ‘turn of the century’ were images of the Blacks back in the 70s..

The more things change, the more they stay the same..(Almost)

[ViLaLuz]

Who is that?

[nascarnation]

Any chance Lizzie Holmes is related to Schiff?

[nascarnation]

Lizzie Holmes, the Theranos fraudster.

[Vendome]

Prolly

[Vendome]

Elizabeth Holmes, the luckiest fraudster ever to live

[nascarnation]

She’s not in the clear yet...the trial hasn’t happened.
Although she did recently get engaged to a guy with huge dough.

[ViLaLuz]

Thanks. I just read about her on wikipedia and remember now how she convinced many to invest in her pipedreams.

[nascarnation]

It was a very convincing scam.
The board of directors had a lot of big names which gave her a lot of credibility.

If not for the WSJ reporter that broke it open, she might still be riding high.

[Political Junkie Too]

I was going to post that, but with a more flattering picture.

Elizabeth Holmes of the disgraced Theranos pharma company.

-PJ

[Vendome]

So, crazier?.../s

[wgmalabama]

My wife is beautiful and competent. She is and can be the deadly combination of a southern woman smart, competent and right. I dislike good looking people of either gender that get promoted for looks.