Catch the Bull at Four

Time to weigh in on fearless girl....I preface my attack with some clarification.....I began working on Wall Street in 1989.....I have worked with some brilliant women, as hard working, tough and funny as any man....I never doubted their ability or called into question their commitment to the job because they were women....I have had women bosses and I have had a lot of women on my various staffs..... They are different animals, in some ways better and in some ways not so much.... But they are most certainly equal.....From my seat in​ history, wall street has always rewarded performance and strictly performance.....Wall Street is color blind...It only sees green....That's not to say that their is no discrimination...Of course there is.....And are there plenty of sexist, racist bosses ? Undoubtedly yes....But it remained as practically the only Industry where a guy or girl from the boroughs, without a college degree, could rise through the ranks and become a boss........2 months after I started on Wall Street....On December 15th 1989 to be precise; a crazy Italian artist named Arturo Di Modica drove his prize sculpture ...A 7,000 pound charging bull into lower Manhattan and placed it (with help) at the foot of the CHRISTMAS tree on Broad Street outside the New York Stock Exchange....As a gift for the people of NY in the aftermath of the 1987 financial crisis....Can you imagine that happening in today's age of security..Lol......The bull represents American Strength in general, and Wall Street prosperity specifically.... Well the NYPD sprung into action and put the statue in impound...No joke.....The public went nuts and the city found the bull a home on the plaza at Bowling Green....Where it has remained for nearly 30 years.....I support free speech even if I dislike the message, I have no problem with a statue of fearless girl even though I don't agree that women are playing at a disadvantage in the business world...In fact from my vantage point women are being promoted BECAUSE they are women and not in spite of that fact....But in any event..... Nobody should ever be allowed to censor someone else's art or steal their message..... Fearless girl, like many millennial women, can't stand on her own....She is pointless without a big bad villian to blame everything on....A statue of a little girl stirs zero emotion in the general public, but place her in front of the bull and criticize big, bad, unfair wall street and now you have a hit on your hands.....She tells the world "I have no message, I bring nothing to the table, but the bull is bad" .... Instead of celebrating the successes of so many women, they'd rather tear down the industry that keeps America Great...A sad microcosm of the world today.