Isn't a lot of this anecdotal vs statistical? My mom is an amazing investor, wall st exec, ivy league grad etc, but isn't that somewhat of an anomaly for no other reason than men are more represented at the extremes of intelligence? Aren't there more mentally handicapped males and more autistic males than females? So that doesn't mean that there aren't extremely smart women, or that they can't do anything a man can do, but if you were to purely guess based on odds it would be slightly more likely for one over the other at the extreme ends which was what I interpreted as the inelegant point that was trying to be made.
Its like if you say, "black people are poorer than white people" which I listened to Norm McDonald turn into a bit, and people flipped out because hes obviously leaving unsaid the reasons why, racism, red lining, amongst im sure a ton of other horrible things that led to where we stand on that subject. That said, mathematically the statement is true across the whole dataset of America. I guess the issue becomes when we take what data seems to show, and draw a conclusion like Charles Murray does in regards to race which I vehemently disagree with, but I don't like not acknowledging differences because only when we recognize difference in outcomes or inequalities can we address them. And I honestly hope this changes, and I'm sure most if not all on this board would want this to change for the better.
So in much the same way we need women on boards, women running companies for differences of perspective, so we're more inclusive and just have better overall societal health, we need more support for stay at home dads fulfilling the "traditional" mother role (even though that in itself seems so biased to me, with all the other cultures in the world that don't operate like we do). These subjects are so tough, because bad actors are always out there and are ready to take what should be thoughtful discussion and use for their nefarious ends.
What I really take out of this is that we need to, as a society, encourage young women to invest and get educated and participate in financial subjects, and we need to teach restraint and caution to young men. With the reverse applicable to the other side, but just as a sort of order of operations for how we get the ball rolling.
The one thing that always bothers me is that, just because these bad faith arguments exist, that now we can't broach a subject. If you had 100 people in a room, 50 males and 50 females, and wanted to guess who could dunk a basketball, and could only pick 5 or 10 people, wouldn't you pick all men even though its much more likely that only say 10 people can dunk and 1-2 are female and 8-9 are male? Meaning those women are better than 95% of the men at dunking, but on average males have more chance to be able to do so because of testosterone? Obviously dunking is a somewhat ridiculous thing to pick to separate humans but isn't most of what makes society society constructs that could also be construed as silly?
I honestly would not be surprised, purely anecdotally in my family, to find out that estrogen makes you a better investor. Obviously I have no idea if any of this applies to intelligence, or even how we categorize intelligence. Could dumb people be better investors? I sort of doubt it but then the people who sort of simulate in some respects being dumb, aka forgetting about accounts, never checking whats happening, end up winning the long term investing game.
The only thing I know for sure is that education is the be all, end all. I'd take the educated person for any role, situation, or problem regardless of race\sex\creed\nationality. Because the educated person could figure out how to dunk, or can figure out the best way to "invest like a dummy". The biggest problem in society today, to me at least, is issues with education and differences in outcomes and what seems to be to be clear racist policies and horrible inequality in opportunities in education.