"Women who cross their legs provocatively, wear short skirts or massage a man's shoulders at work get fewer pay raises and promotions",

The above goes way beyond flirting. Intelligent flirting can be an advantageous tool for women to use in the work place and they would be fools not to use it.

So being the office skank doesn't get you a promotion?

I'm shocked.

The women that flirted in my old workplaces (large insurance companies) tended to be a bit dim.

I don't think its the flirting that's holding them back, it's just that the really competent workers tend not to do it. Either they don't need to or they don't have time. They're working.

Or I could be completely wrong.

Ace,

Oh sure. Feisty Republican Whore gets a link. It doesn't have anything at all to do with the fact that she wants to "do" you.

I guess this flirting thing works in the blogosphere! I am just not very good at it.

;-)

Any obvious flirting will earn a woman the emnity of every other female in the office. With so many women already in positions of power they tend to have no patience with their slutty sisters. Women can be evil cats and one who is flirting and acting easy will soon find herself the butt of jokes and gossip. That doesn't get you the respect you need to get promotions or lead effectivley.

In round figures, you face 1 billion muslims, 1 billion Chinese, and if they ever get angry with the U.S., 1 billion Indians. Not only are they numerous; they're also younger. Thus, they don't just have more young men; they have disproportionately more young men. To top it off, the Chinese have a sex ratio imbalance that is leaving increasingly large numbers of young Chinese men at loose ends. It might be prudent for the Chinese government to send them into battle before their, ahem, creative juices propel them against the government. Meanwhile, Americans are getting older and old and not replacing themselves; you ought not imagine that these things will be without consequence. It's imprudent to care very much, under these circumstances, whether women do well in the workplace, or this place or that place, unless by "do well" one means "have babies."

Arafel

What the fuck?

Sex hurts women in the workplace? Find a larger broom closet.

Arafel,

You're basically saying, get out of the workplace and get on your back for America.

Uhm...I can't do that. I have grown accustomed to living indoors.

I'm thinking we should name Arafel as Official Demographer of the Apocalypse (TM)

:)

Muslims, Chinese and Indians, Oh My

Muslims, Chinese and Indians, Oh My

Arafel overlooks the fact that we can kill far more people far quicker with far fewer people than they can. Numbers don't mean much in open warfare. Not against us. There is a real demographic threat, but it's not military in nature.

In round figures, you face 1 billion muslims, 1 billion Chinese, and if they ever get angry with the U.S., 1 billion Indians.

Arafel has not told you the most terrifying statistic: in 1998, the world chicken population was 13.5 billion. That's more than two chickens for every man, woman, and child on Earth.

You might think America's advanced war-fighting technology can protect us. Think again. Even if we manage to mobilize in time, each of our soldiers and Marines will be outnumbered by thousands to one.

The danger is here at home. One of the largest world concentrations of chickens -- the mustering fields for their Army of Death -- is within our borders. Specifically, Arkansas.

That's right: the home state of Bill Clinton. Who famously decided that the "peace dividend" justfied reducing our military capacity at the moment we were most vulnerable to avian tyranny.

At the same time, Bill Clinton led a nationwide move towards sexual gratification through non-procreative methods. Mere short-sightedness? Or active collusion?

I, for one, welcome our new chicken overlords.

As do I.

On barbecue grills!

Sparkle, never underestimate the power of stroking a man's ego or his...um...nevermind.

After the Great Chicken War, history will record that being a Chickenhawk was a good thing much to the chagrin of liberals.

In the future, wars will be waged against mankind by vast armies of robot chickens, who refuse to die even when you cut off their heads.

Well Dave that puts a kink in my theory that we would no longer need MRE's as we could just consume our enemy with no upcharge for white meat.

Brewfan: Thanks for the suggestion; the Presidential run wasn't working out.

LauraW: I understand; habit is powerful in human affairs. That's another reason to favor my bold initiative to shorten the generational cycle to fifteen years. I don't exactly understand how "abstinence education" came to be a part of "family values." By the time people get around to having children, many of them need heroic measures like fertility medications and in-vitro fertilization. I propose that from now on, the custom of postponing family for ten or twenty years after puberty be acknowledged as anti-family on its face.

Megan: We used to have both the technological advantage and a better demographic status. We've lost standing demographically but have maintained a technological advantage so far. But I don't know whether we'll maintain the technological advantage. Russia achieved some sort of parity with us in nuclear technology. Considering the way electronics get cheaper and cheaper and software development skills are spreading around the world, I don't know of any reason that our technological feats can't be duplicated. Nor is it necessary to go through every developmental stage that we've gone through. I understand that there are cities in developing countries that have established cellular telephone networks without first establishing landline-based networks. Can determined opponents combine second- or first-rate technology with their numerical superiority so as to overcome us? Maybe the muslims will never really get their act together. Maybe India is well-disposed and too occupied with the problem of being sandwiched between Islam and China to give offense. But the Chinese seem more orderly than the muslims and the Chinese government, at least, is not well-disposed toward us. If they close the technological gap partway, their huge numerical advantage in men of military age may carry them the rest of the way.