this could actually be interesting if it hasn’t been done before
It isn’t my line of research and I don’t find it interesting, but a lot of the profs in the department love this type of research
Just my observation but I see it beyond the workplace too. It’s almost like to be assertive, women (some, not all), have to get in to a “mean girl” headspace and then you just want to tell them to calm down.
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A lot of women I’ve worked with, have no problem just being adults and doing the work. They’re assertive when they need to be, and that’s it - just like the men.
Some women, usually the ones who are actually incompetent, resort to ‘pissed off girlfriend’ attitude or nagging, instead of just being competent.
It never works, causes significant issues and time constraints, then everyone goes about their day with less energy.
If a less-than-competent man were to act this way, he’d be out of a job.
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That’s because it’s not natural, and most that are in a position to be assertive have gotten there through privilege and, thus, don’t have the confidence of someone who got there by competence.
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I agree assertion is not generally a feminine trait. With exceptions.
I disagree most women in powerful roles are there due to privilege. I would concede that diversity hiring is a thing, but so is maintaining and growing a business - with objectively measured outcomes. Nobody is kept in a failing role, and the women succeeding in high levels tend to be the exceptions.
I would also say that women do very well in management roles on the people management side of the fence. Generally, they have a knack for team building and cohesion. And if you’re hiring & retaining top performers they’ll self-motivate, so the more masculine side of management (motivation, assertion et cetera) is unnecessary, or at least secondary.
Process mgmt seems to be a toss up, with expected slants in emphasis.
I hire in a merit forward culture, and some of my top performers are women. Real go-getters, aggressive client pursuit and able to mesh it in to a cute little package for a warm welcome. But they still have a hard time self-advocating. It’s almost like if you can be a good authority figure for them they’ll “serve” by performing, and feel validated to do so, but won’t be assertive otherwise. It’s an interesting phenomenon and one to conscious of, but not rewrite the book for.
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Nothing cringier than a “boss babe”
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Exactly
Repulsive attitude…
I had a girl on date… about 5’ 03", extremely attractive… ask me… a former Marine, SWAT officer, war veteran, fighter, malcontent… " Do I intimidate you?"
I had that Jack Nicholson in The Shining look on my face…
I said… “Excuse me?!”
She replied… “Aren’t you at least a little intimidated by me?”
I replied… as respectfully as possible… “Are you out of your fucking mind… I’ve been to war, taken violent offenders into custody… fought men in a chicken wire cage… why would you intimidate me… better yet why do you want to?”
Vacuous look…
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I’m reading, “Women are good at staying out of the way of people who don’t need managing, which makes management positions perfect for quota-filling.”
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Lol, I don’t understand it. Bad bitches. What do they think they’re going to do?
They face zero accountability or consequences, so they just keep on with it. It’s just so fucking annoying and masculine
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Sort of. When you get to a management level role you’ll find that if you have the right individual performers in place you can invest more in team and culture building with measurable positive outcomes as a result vs babysitting and spinning wheels paying someone to “motivate”.
This will show measurable positive outcomes too, but it’s kind of like staying on your dog to not pee in the house over and over again vs training him to hunt and then letting him run within the confines you’ve built in to his training. A team of dogs is even better, or worse if you have the carpet peeing variety and are also paying someone to yell at them every time.
I would never date them but once upon a time I liked fucking the attitude out of these women. Remind them who does the penetrating. Hard to be intimidated by convulsing, moaning mess.
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They long to be dominated. But for real just STFU… It’s a trend now for women that repulse men to claim we’re “intimidated.”
Ya… couldn’t be your foreskin shriveling persona
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The toxic trait just comes right out sometimes. 
“I can’t find a good man because I’m very intimidating…”
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Bro… I was almost enraged at such a moronic thought
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Lol, absolutely. I think it’s how they flirt. Brats looking for the rough stuff.
I’ve been asked to abuse them in various ways… the typical cliche bs like choking, hair pulling, hard spanking… pretty vanilla. Then right before I deployed to OIF some degenerate asked me to full on punch her in the back of the head. I’m not Mike Tyson but I have a few KO victories on men. I passed and just defiled her in a normal way.
Lol. There is a lot of crazy out there. Makes you wonder where she’s been.
The tiny part of my heart that isn’t dead black and shriveled almost felt bad for her
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