Anne of Carversville

RedTracker| The NYTimes women were out in full-force over the weekend.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst professor Nancy Folbre asks if “Another World Is Possible”, introducing readers to the World Social Forum, an event that exists in opposition to the World Economic Forum, that annual gathering of the global power elite in Davos, Switzerland.

Interest in the contrasts of both economic perspectives, will surely gain traction in our global economic meltdown. 

As Folbre points out in an earlier article Cougar Capitalism, successful women like Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina haven’t exactly rewritten the rule book for women’s economic independence. 

Don’t Believe the Cougar Capitalists

Based on Modern values, Cougar Capitalism says “be patient and you, too, will see the promised land.” Losing faith in most major institutions world-wide, the little people are saying “oh, really?”

A Smart Sensuality woman shares Folbre’s view of being “less worried about the cougars and the cowboys than the rest of us, huddled around the campfire, staring into the dark.”  

Cougar Capitalism doesn’t operate on Smart Sensuality rules, which are much more aligned with a World Social Forum perspective. We don’t believe that the winner takes all — in an American bonfire of the vanities approach to business.  

And NO, we’re not socialists. Don’t sent in a Palin pac of “mama grizzlies”. We just wonder how many pair of $400 shoes one woman needs. 

Smart Sensuality women, operating on Cultural Creative values, are more inspired by saving dying babies with condoms in Africa, than buying new stilettos. 

Mind you, SS girls don’t run around the world in sneakers — unless you’re Helena Christensen selling fast-talking shoes for Reebok or modeling for Erdun, her best gal pal Ali Hewson’s Edun brand.

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