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The conference sounds awesome but it kinda galls me that no women are featured. Even if one or two were, that's not enough, it needs to be noticed when this imbalance occurs and it needs to be righted by having a roughly equal proportion. Ratios need to be noticed. I realize that is an advancement that is not in the minds of most people but it is very important to get the other side's perspectives and thus the new thinking must incorporate that and be an example. That is also what it means to lead others, to show the discrepancy and act to rectify it. Sheesh women were left out of everything for eons, isn't it time now that we go forth together in fairness?

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We actually invited two different woman speakers (Carrie Wedler and Collette Ridgeway who wrote privately protected places for Cato 30 years ago) and neither one could make it... Search Engine: The Assumption of Goodwill ;-)

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I would love if you found more women. Look deeper. It's so worth it. This is what will change the world - people like us showing how it can be done differently. Look at everything we see that we value - it's all dominated (and designed) by men pretty much exclusively. I would like to recommend a real front runner in the new paradigm, a youtuber called Amy who calls herself a Manifest Teacher. She is phenomenal. You probably don't know of her, so that's another thing men could do, if a women can't show up, ask her if she could recommend another woman. Don't just leave it cut off. We need to hear what women have to say as they hold the light. Here's the incredible Amy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8dGIm5xOm4

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And Tereza Corazio who writes The Third Paradigm on Substack, same name as her youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDTuaCHlGv0

She's a cracker. We need to encourage women to come out of their shells and speak up now. This will "save the world" as hifalutin as that may sound, I have every confidence it is true.

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That's good to know and I know you have good intentions. I understand that women do not come forward to speak as readily as men (that's because of eons of being suppressed and kept out of public life). I speak about balance. If you had asked me to speak at the conference I could certainly give some new perspectives that would be controversial and make the freedom community see more ways we can get out of this malevolent snag. But everyone would have to be prepared to feel a bit of dissonance. And they are not way out ideas either, just very simple and doable, which is how most solutions are.

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