maneaters

By Christine Chacha

An article I was reading the other day almost made me explode with fury.The article, written by a powerful attorney was an advice directed at male bosses and corporate men. It warned them against warming up to beautiful women in the office calling them dangerous office piranha.
For those not in the know , a piranha is a man-eating South American fish used here to describe women who use the office to snap up a high-flying colleague, whether he is married or not. According to her these women, align themselves only to powerful men, only go after “high earning, high-flying, high-virility men" to put a ring on them.
Apparently these women join companies with large male employers with the sole intention of looking for partners mostly eyeing the business owners. These women will hang for the kill and will rip any man to shreds. If they do not feign pregnancy after a drunken office party, they will seduce the men to worship the ground she walk on and before long a ring is placed on her finger.
Unlike their gold digging counterparts, man-eaters are mostly beautiful successful career women who are looking for men who will match up their status not necessarily for financial support. This could be caused by the fact that most men are intimidated by successful women so they have to nub their equals; Man-eaters go after men of power, men who can handle
I personally think this is advice is quite lame, for a men in power and corporate duded, these men disappoint me. What is wrong with them,do they really need the advice? Are they incapable of turning these women down or are they completely powerless to a femme fatale?

This prompted me to do more research on the topic and  stumbled on a story about Carla Bruni sarkozy. The amount of information about this first lady is volumnous; all the dirt written about Carla, all the name calling and character shredding writings on her is just surprising. Why Is society so unforgiving to a woman who knows what she wants and how to get it?

Then at a meeting one day a collegue said that beautiful women who have a go-getter attitude are actually dangerous and should be avoided.Unlike their blonde counterparts, these ones know exactly what they want and will get it at whatever cost” said one man. He even admitted that he preferred ‘dumb’ women to ‘smart’ women.  

Today, my question is what is wrong with a woman who wants to get all she wants at every cost? Cant a woman desire the best in life?The heated brouhaha that ensued when Mr Sarkozy married Carla Bruni, a woman many thought to be a very unlikely first lady proved that we are not.

Carla has the looks of a first lady with her high cheekbones, porcelain skin and feline gaze, what worried the world is whether the 40-year-old model-turned-folk singer has the temperament to become a fitting consort to their most energetic, controversial president.

Carla, a self proclaimed seductress had over the years alleged that she is pro polygamous and faithful only to herself. Carla’s long list of past lovers are not your ordinary Johns, she has dated big rock stars, very rich Donald trump and even prime ministers. In her very own words she said, "I am a tamer [of men], a cat, an Italian - monogamy bores me terribly”.

Like Carla there are women out there to whom love and commitment are a far away dream as long as they do not help her get her where she wants to be. Their hearts are after big things, after a man who can match up to their ambitions. Once they nub such men, they put their lives on hold and enjoy what comes with power. Who doesn’t crave power anyway?  It is no wonder Carla was quick to put aside her career and life as a seductress and focus on being a first lady.

A man-eaters  also called a "Terminator" is a woman who is "beautiful and bionic, with the look of a killer”, they care for naught but herself. They are the women who marry a man and dump him once they realize his father or son has more power than him-husband-.

To sum it al up, indeed there are women out there who are out to consume the success and money out of successful men but my question is; what is wrong with that?

If a women can make a man happy in exchange for power and money isn’t that okay? Why label them man-eaters when it is the weakness of men that give such women leverage? Maybe am wrong, but considering the harsh economic times I see no problem with shelving things like love and commitment that cloud your judgment making the path to success seem blury.

chaxtine@yahoo.com