Feminine Charms

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Re: Feminine Charms

@CM

So a woman uses the man’s other brain so to speak to get things done. I am wondering if its insulting to a man or a commentary on a woman’s self esteem that she can not compete like equals when it comes to such matters and must employ the potential for sexual favours as their best method to get the job done.

This is kinda redundant considering my agreement with your self-degradation point. But to humor you :

@Ghost14

if other men are naive enough to get played then let them get played. Any man who gets played should stop being a chump.

Whether this behavior damns the woman more than the man, I’d say the manipulation of another’s weakness says something about both the party that employs it and the party that falls for it. But for the sake of argument : what of men who flirt with female superiors in the workplace to curry favor? Are they suffering from low self-esteem, or do they operate with the assumption that they’re dealing with a bimbo who’ll lap it right up? Objectification isn’t the preserve of menfolk anymore (although I can and do argue that women can seldom win the game of objectification for the very reason our sexuality is more vulnerable than a man’s). Yet for obvious reasons we analyze this behavior in women as a lack of low self esteem and/or incompetence, whereas for men it’s just strategic maneuvering as they have the privilege of not having anything to prove. Can the conventional roles of object (woman) and objectifier (man) be interchanged?

/endrhetoric.