-84% bankers - men
-enormous power - in control of society
-2008 - trashed economy and got off scot free
-stock market room - hard to imagine women
-masculinity asset to job? -got to be sure
-confidence is key
-150 year old ritual - overt display of male confidence
-arm waving and shouting
-masculinity in financial business - subtler, modern, covert, less noticeable
-last 30 years - not about testosterone anymore - calm objectivity and icy self control
-gets up at 5am, always eats same breakfast
-need to be calm
-eliminate every trace of distracting emotion to focus
-not a place for testosterone - place for considered, rational man
-change belief system via recording
-seething with male obsessions and passions
-bastion of male power
-secretive world
-more about carefully managing what you're doing
-discrimination, testosterone driven behaviour
-'sensitive masculinity'
-sensible, rational people making objective decisions
-men playing down maleness
-negative connotations to 'alpha man' in financial industry
-'aggressive' - no longer fashionable - have it but dress it up
-savvy at self presentation
-behind veil - business as usual
-good actors - slick at language and rhetoric
-clever men - clever act - well educated and look the part
-shallow - men scared of failure - only thing that defines them
-chip away at women - manipulative - need to be in control of everything - women = threat
-want to stay in control - spot clues
-altars to corporate - luxury marbles and leather - chic gentlemans club - blandness in lobbies
-fiercely competitive
-ritual exercise and ritual food
-overt masculinity
-bullish, aggresive trader - gentlemanly form of this
-masculinity gentrifies as it becomes more powerful
-take on decisions that will be destructive to people's lives
-people who form the elite - live driven and monochrome lives
-fun and play - meet 6 other people the same
-working hard - way of life - ignore family
-unattractive people inside
-in control of destiny
-lone hunter cowboy hero - deep inside
-to be right, need to be vindicated, need to be in control, need to be an individualist, to star in your own heroic story about yourself
-animal spirits - bull and bear
-masculinity cloaked under gentlemanliness and rationality and good business practice
-the beast still lurks but very well behaved
-men have monopoly on rationality and objectivity - not true
-skyscrapes = commanding view of world
-Object in Foreground
-Animal Spirit
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