Ardy, I started to write more but waited for you to finish your reply.
And, as a corollary, any woman who wants to be more successful would spend a reasonable amount of effort and resources seeking to maximize her attractiveness as a way of enhancing her competitive positioning in a broad range of activities.
And, as a corollary, any man who wants to be more successful would spend a reasonable amount of effort and resources seeking to maximize his attractiveness as a way of enhancing his competitive positioning in a broad range of activities.
If those two statements have equal value - and they should - why were they not written as
And, as a corollary, anyone who wants to be more successful will spend a reasonable amount of effort and resources seeking to maximize attractiveness as a way of enhancing competitive positioning in a broad range of activities.
The value for each sentence is different.
As for
IMO one has to be able to clearly look at something in order to deal with it.
-- just how many women do you think have ignored this message from society?
As you say, we did not deal with racism by ignoring its existence. Or...did we, assuming "we" means white people without much personal contact with black people? I know for a fact that black people don't -- haven't -- ignored racism. Any more than women have ignored "looksism" (a word I dislike, btw).
