Paul Tudor Jones II is under attack. The famous hedge fund manager and founder of Tudor Investment Corp. spouted some seemingly sexist, 1950s-esque comments in April at a symposium that he thought was private and off the record. The comments, of course, quickly went viral on the Internet. Although on the face of it the remarks are tough to defend – and I don’t support them at all – it is also important to understand the context of Jones’s remarks. If you look at what he said, as well as earlier gender-neutral remarks he has made about macro trading skills in general, yo...
