Perplexed

A comment on the changes in the workplace today.

Women are more and more a part of today’s work force. I know that, I (reluctantly) accept it, and remain aware of it. But that being the case-why can’t we then adapt some of our business sayings to reflect that? And where did women get the idea that buzz words and phrases that were used in a male only environment, make sense in  a mixed gender one?

I don’t get it.

This came to mind yesterday when I was in a meeting. A lady-who works a different project, was giving her report of a meeting she attended last week in Washington DC. She is a nice woman, rather attractive in a MILF sort of way. So it struck me as more than a little odd-when she used the phrase, “This meeting was full ‘open kimono'”.

Uh, excuse me?

You do know what the purpose of pulling a kimono open is don’t you? It’s about getting a glimpse at this (NSFW!)-not her profit and loss spread sheets.

In an all male environment it kind of made sense-as a subtle kind of way to touch on ribald humor, which livened up already dull topics. When used by a woman-or by a man in front of a woman, it seems oddly out of place.

Or maybe it is just that I am fixating on opening her MILFY kimono,  at the end of the day,  while she is peeling an onion, with synergy, offline.

Just a thought.