Do women ever conflate war and business?

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An open question - There was recently a post about "Burning boats" comparing ancient wars to modern business. The author is male.

My question - do women ever use military metaphors in to explain business matters? I can't recall a single time.

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Yes, actually. I'm a woman, I used to write long business articles for magazines, and I'd often use a war motif for those articles (common thing to use a motif -- offers art choices and/or keeps the writer entertained). War just gives you lots of great word choices ("bombarded" "invades" etc.)that seemed to go well in business articles, esp when you're looking at one company vs. another or a new one breaking into the market.

It's kinda like how you often see "capitulate" somewhere in an article about France (even if not related) -- it just works together ;-)

Interesting. Did you ever compare business tactics to actual military campaigns and strategy?

No. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about actual campaigns/strategy to do so. Not that I don't find the topic interesting, but I just never did enough background reading to pull something like that off (unless the Flashman books count ;-), and when you're on deadline, you don't have the time to do detailed research on off-topics. Woulda been cool though -- maybe if women do less reading of that topic, those types of detailed analogies would be used less, but I do think everyone loves a good, violent analogy whenever possible

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