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Quote: Jennie @ 4th April 2014, 1:03 AM BST

As Caitlin Moran puts it:

"Ladies, we are at a massive disadvantage in the workplace. Your male peers are flirting with their male bosses constantly. The average workplace is like f*cking Bromancing the Stone. That's basically what male bonding is. Flirting. They're flirting with each other playing golf, they're flirting with each other going to the football, they're flirting with each other chatting at the urinals - and, sadly, flirting with each other in after-hours visits to strip clubs and pubs.

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What is with chicks constantly trying to make male friendships all about bumming? I used to enjoy the Sherlock programme until the fans started to make them all homosexually romantic.

Male bonding isn't flirting, it's establishing common ground and establishing unity. Women always backstab each other, so they don't understand that men can just like each other as friends with no other implications attached.

Which brings me to another TTPYO: the expression 'play date' when describing children hanging out with each other. It's creepy.

Not all flirting is overtly sexual. You can flirt but not necessarily want to have sex with someone.

TTPYO: http://www.therulesrevisited.com/2013/02/female-game-for-women-in-their-30s.html

F**k me.

"Do not get fat. This is critical. Your figure is crucial to your attractiveness, and you have too many other things working against you to give up control of it. If you are single, over 30 and getting fat, you are pretty much screwed. At best you will have to settle for a sloppy man who doesn't respect himself, doesn't attract you, and doesn't find you attractive. This might be an unfortunate truth, but it is a truth nonetheless. Do not get fat."

Stay in shape. I realize I am repeating myself. I am doing so because it is important. As a woman ages, her fitness becomes increasingly important, because it increasingly sets her apart from other women. By staying (or getting) in shape while most other women are starting to fall off the fitness cliff, you will crush the competition. Unless you are already a nutrition, diet and exercise freak, staying in shape will almost certainly require that you become one. But the satisfaction you were used to getting from food will soon be replaced by satisfaction from your relationships with men.

The dead giveaway is the reference to golf, who plays golf with work colleagues any more, outside of banking or being a golf pro or a dictator.
It just reads like she watched Madmen and couldn't work out it was a TV program. Probably because she was crying after Giles Corren made fun of her ridiculous Johnny Depp haircut at the Times. And Mathew Paris refused to be her GBF on account of her hypocritical anti bullying stance on Twitter.

Quote: Jennie @ 4th April 2014, 1:18 AM BST

F**k me.

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Does that chat up line ever work.

Always. As I am nearly 30, I can't beat around the bush in case I get fat whilst I am beating. So I just put it on the table from the beginning.

Quote: sootyj @ 4th April 2014, 1:09 AM BST

I dunno visit Netherlands or Denmark or any of the jobs I've had female dominated industries.

As for leadership, glass ceiling takes a long time for things to change.

A couple of centuries ago, who'd have thought you could be a leader if you didn't believe in Jesus.

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That is certainly true. Though I don't want to live in a world where 'women and children first' is thrown away because of some ideological line drawing exercise.

Yes, the physical aspects of work have changed, but not the mental and emotional aspects. We live in a world where anyone can start a business in their back bedrooms by making Apps, but by far and away, it's men that are providing all the breakthroughs.

One of the biggest differences that we have failed to take into account is risk taking. Men are far more likely to threaten their own security in a bid for success, women less so. This is the defining difference beyond all of the other reasons I've given. Obviously, this kind of behaviour backfires all the time - look at the number of men in prison - but on the flipside, it's why we have all the success too.

Lots of golf in the legal profession.

Quote: Jennie @ 4th April 2014, 1:18 AM BST

F**k me.

"Do not get fat. This is critical. Your figure is crucial to your attractiveness, and you have too many other things working against you to give up control of it. If you are single, over 30 and getting fat, you are pretty much screwed. At best you will have to settle for a sloppy man who doesn't respect himself, doesn't attract you, and doesn't find you attractive. This might be an unfortunate truth, but it is a truth nonetheless. Do not get fat."

Stay in shape. I realize I am repeating myself. I am doing so because it is important. As a woman ages, her fitness becomes increasingly important, because it increasingly sets her apart from other women. By staying (or getting) in shape while most other women are starting to fall off the fitness cliff, you will crush the competition. Unless you are already a nutrition, diet and exercise freak, staying in shape will almost certainly require that you become one. But the satisfaction you were used to getting from food will soon be replaced by satisfaction from your relationships with men.

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Jenny after winning many blitzkreig arguments you seem to be having a prolonged Russian winter of poor quotations.

That's just poorly written drivel.

You remind me of my exflatmates who used to watch Sex in the City, like my previous flatmates studied the Bible.

Just to clarify: I think the above quotation is poorly written bullshit. The whole article is full of crap, I picked these out as my least favourite bits of crap.

Quote: Jennie @ 4th April 2014, 1:18 AM BST

"Do not get fat. This is critical. Your figure is crucial to your attractiveness, and you have too many other things working against you to give up control of it. If you are single, over 30 and getting fat, you are pretty much screwed. At best you will have to settle for a sloppy man who doesn't respect himself, doesn't attract you, and doesn't find you attractive. This might be an unfortunate truth, but it is a truth nonetheless. Do not get fat."

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Though in this ever increasingly superficial society, the same could be applied to men. Twenty years ago there were plenty of fat old male politicians, now they're considered freaks. Could you imagine Eric Pickles running for Tory leadership?

Quote: Jennie @ 4th April 2014, 1:23 AM BST

Lots of golf in the legal profession.

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Really well join in, except you're in the poor, but honest public sector. So I guess you'd be thwacking balls at the rats in the council dump, along with care managers and probation workers.

As a free lancer my definition of networking seems to be drinking beer whilst talking to someone on Skype.

Quote: Jennie @ 4th April 2014, 1:27 AM BST

Just to clarify: I think the above quotation is poorly written bullshit. The whole article is full of crap, I picked these out as my least favourite bits of crap.

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See I'm a writer not a reader, I don't really read anything, it's the ultimate protection against being accused of plagiarism.

On the "why men don't want intelligent women" section he writes that:

Men know that their role in a relationship is to be the more powerful one, and to use their power to protect and provide for their woman and children. If you subscribe to evolutionary biology's take on history, you will recognize this as a result of the fact that women have long been the physically weaker sex, and traditionally they have needed a male to protect and provide for them and their offspring. But reasons aside, the fact remains that men want to be the stronger mate in relationships. It gives us a feeling of importance to take care of our woman and children - it gives us purpose."

Have I stumbled across your blog, Renegade?

This is what happens when I'm not feeling great and spend most of the day asleep. I stay up half the night reading crap on the internet.

Quote: sootyj @ 4th April 2014, 1:29 AM BST

Really well join in, except you're in the poor, but honest public sector. So I guess you'd be thwacking balls at the rats in the council dump, along with care managers and probation workers.

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Sad but true.

That's not fair, whilst RCP maybe a compulsive wind up artist, he is also a witty and erudite one.
Where as Jenny you are wasting your time reading a blog as offensive as it's dull.

He also doesn't have a blog, much as I might suggest he should.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 4th April 2014, 1:27 AM BST

Though in this ever increasingly superficial society, the same could be applied to men. Twenty years ago there were plenty of fat old male politicians, now they're considered freaks. Could you imagine Eric Pickles running for Tory leadership?

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Oh true poor little Lord Sir Alan Sugar cycling everywhere so he can look more like nookie bear than pooh bear.

Quote: Jennie @ 4th April 2014, 1:36 AM BST

On the "why men don't want intelligent women" section he writes that:

Men know that their role in a relationship is to be the more powerful one, and to use their power to protect and provide for their woman and children. If you subscribe to evolutionary biology's take on history, you will recognize this as a result of the fact that women have long been the physically weaker sex, and traditionally they have needed a male to protect and provide for them and their offspring. But reasons aside, the fact remains that men want to be the stronger mate in relationships. It gives us a feeling of importance to take care of our woman and children - it gives us purpose."

Have I stumbled across your blog, Renegade?

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Though I disagree with the tag line: 'why men don't want intelligent women', I must admit, I pretty much agree with everything else. Men do feel amazingly protective over their loved ones, it's why when we're in bed and we hear a noise from downstairs, we don't kick our wives out from under the covers and say: 'That might be a burglar, go and check it out.'

Quote: sootyj @ 4th April 2014, 1:39 AM BST

he is also a witty and erudite one.

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Why sir, you flatter me. Oh no, Caitlin Moran was right!

You're just so closeted you're hoping it's a rapist or a racist both would be good.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 4th April 2014, 1:42 AM BST

Though I disagree with the tag line: 'why men don't want intelligent women', I must admit, I pretty much agree with everything else. Men do feel amazingly protective over their loved ones, it's why when we're in bed and we hear a noise from downstairs, we don't kick our wives out from under the covers and say: 'That might be a burglar, go and check it out.'

Why sir, you flatter me. Oh no, Caitlin Moran was right!

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Don't get your hopes up I don't play golf and I don't use urinals.

To be absolutely fair, that isn't the tag line. The tag line is "what men think about your intelligence" and his conclusion is that:

"a woman's intelligence is undoubtedly an attractive quality, but it has the negative side-effect of undermining a man's ability to feel powerful, and a woman's ability to admire him. The moral? Seek out men that are smarter than you, or at least, men that you still admire greatly in spite of their lesser intelligence."