Comments on: 8 Mistakes Men Don’t Make

By: Gabriela Valdes

Gabriela Valdes — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:04:07 +0000

I see myself doing this, thanks for sharing

May we be loving and validate ourselves and learn how to stop searching for validation, it is only ouselves who put our own selves down, incredible!

By: avoid debt

avoid debt — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:08:51 +0000

i am a man and i have only made one of those mistakes and haven’t done since then. you put it on the dot with what you said

By: Lela Davidson

Lela Davidson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:02:01 +0000

Ollulia, thanks so much for your comments, especially pointing out my spelling error. We’re working without a net here sometimes and I appreciate any help I can get.

As to your 10th mistake – I’m always changing, and when I find an idea I like, I do urge others to change too. As for the gender aspect of it, I don’t think it serves any purpose to ignore biology and millennia of social training. I would argue that men have more historical experience in business than women, unless we’re talking the ‘oldest profession’, but that’s another post.

Regarding your proposed 11th mistake – no endorsements or pandering here – just some honest support for a couple of women I discovered have something to say. Also, men do pit women against each other every day, even though they really don’t have to – do they – if we’re busy taking care of that job for them?

I hope you’ll come back to comment on the substantive posts that follow.

By: carol spieckerman

carol spieckerman — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:00:10 +0000

I love how you are playing our presentation forward, Lela!

By: Dennis Gibson

Dennis Gibson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:28:15 +0000

come back with an open mind you’ll learn something too! – VERY WELL said .. I love that quote.

By: Ollulia

Ollulia — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:43:15 +0000

The 9th, 10th, and 11th mistakes women make:
- Write typos in their links
- Continue the urge of society to make women change themselves (how to be better wives, lovers, improve our looks, act like men, etc., etc.) – unlike men feel the need to
- Continue to pit women against women when we endorse and pander to resources that want us to act more like men
I’m sure there are more, but unlike Lela Davidson I don’t feel the need to self-promote at the expense of either gender…