I’ll sidestep the gratuitous nastiness and raise a simple question: why are you so persuaded that (all?) women are getting swindled? Because women are de facto stupid? Because they have no idea what a 5-year ARM was or is? Anyone who reads the financial pages or watches, reads or listens to fiscal populists like Suze Orman knows otherwise.

You can only be swindled if you’re asleep at the wheel and, while there were plenty of mortgages sold to people — male and female — who had 1) crap credit and no right to enormous loans 2) had insufficient financial literacy to understand the serious commitment they were making — there are many women out there, still, with the intelligence and good judgment to know if or when assuming a mortgage or re-finance is wise or imprudent.

What sexist hogwash to assume all women are too gullible to handle a mortgage. What bitterness are you carrying to assume every realtor and bank is out only to steal your money and impoverish you for amusement?

Caveat emptor is a fairly standard MO in any economy, regardless of your gender.

This is awful. “Like most women, I’m risk averse with my money and don’t like moving?” Has she ever *met* a woman? I think she’s really a being from a different planet. Only that way could someone be so disconnected from reality.

Articles like this get me thinking that even *I* could be a writer. Just take your narrow, uninformed view on life and vomit it onto a word processor and send it in to your editor who is too busy looking for a job with a real publication to read your drivel.