Elizabeth Holmes

Despite all the red flags, such as calling himself 'The Body Language Guy', then hitting us with this egregious 'hit like and subscibe before even telling us anything, buy my goods unseen', then flogging his book [that's not quite so bad, as it's free enterprise, innit] ... despite all that ...

... he's really not too bad ... makes some good points ... and I like how he concludes that she's not the classic psycho ... there are conditions she does not fulfil there for that designation.

https://youtu.be/BHHG1yAH-XY

Yet, as he shows, she did have these psycho phases in which she pitched her bullsh.  She may well have started out with a premise she believed in ... fear of needles ... and that's fair ... but she was also not alone, she did not do the biz part, this was guys in the background ... is it not ever the way?  

Yet she did go the route she did and investors bought it.  Why?

Part of that was simply that she was female.  As one susceptible to the female myself, as one who's spent inordinate swathes of time building up this girl or that, it was my job ... I can see the natural desire that this or that gal does well, succeeds.  It's nice to see it happen.

Where one starts to self-examine though is when the klutzy, overkilling establishment juggernaut latches onto the idea ... ah, promote the female on the grounds she has a baby chute, rather than understand that, just as with males ... there are those will make the cut ... and so many who won't.

But in the current twisted world of 'woman good, man bad' we find ourselves in, and increasingly, for variety, the twisted world of 'diverse good, indigenous bad' ... things become dismayingly skewed and the very worst people are promoted for an ideology, not on sheer merit.  Just look at parliament, congress.

Why were so many supposedly level-headed investors prepared to fork out like that?  Well, part of it is the man's hope that her smile can, in some way, become her favours, not so much in nooky but in her lovely presence just being around, her smile which makes the sun come out on an otherwise drab day, in the vicarious thrill of 'her'.

How so?  Well I'm the wrong one to ask, ask whoever designed male-female chemistry.

But it's there, it sells, it's easy to promote a Rebekah Brooks, her way is eased until the day she's caught out in her incompetence and her multiple sly moves.  

Enter the time of tears.

When a competent woman, what I call a good woman, runs things, things stay run, there's diligence in a woman, there are few dramas, if any the thing goes like clockwork.  There is most certainly this X factor of women out there who are more than capable, they need no approval from us, one does not hear of them because they're not show ponies like Holmes.  

In fact, the Holmeses and Fiorinas, the Caroline Flints, by their very self-promotion and bullsh, are red flags to anyone at least half-observant and not sucked in by narrative.  Why do they fly high for awhile?  

Because the people assessing these toxic femmes are blinded by the male-female chemistry, because the TFs spin a good yarn with all the right jargon, because they start to believe all the complimentary bullsh they're fed 24/7, because the high life is alluring ... because of so many things.  Because of their own uncontained ambition.

I believe that male and female working alongside one another are an unbeatable combo ... neither a psycho male boss nor an Elizabeth Holmes dominating ... I've seen it work so often in the workplace, the input is healthy, never skewed.  The narrative needs to be kept out of it, the foibles of each sex too. They both need to keep tabs on the other.

It works.  With eyes wide open.