January 4, 2008 12:09 PM

From queen bees to office piranhas?
Posted by Diane Danielsonat 12:09 PM

I caught this bit on Feministing about the Telegraph and the Daily Mail running stories about how women only want good jobs to meet and marry rich men.  Feministing makes a good point that the stories were rehashes of a Financial Times story that ran last year.  But, here's an excerpt from the Daily Mail:

Male bosses who unexpectedly hit it off with a female employee over the festive season were given a stern warning yesterday.

You might have caught yourself an office piranha.

The name of the man-eating South American fish has been borrowed by lawyer Diane Benussi to describe women who use the office party to snap up a high-flying colleague, whether he is married or not.

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She said piranhas "want a highearning, high-flying, high-virility man" who will place a ring on their finger.

The mere fact that such a candidate might already be married merely confirms those characteristics.

"Office parties are a brilliant opportunity for them to lead a colleague astray. The alcohol is flowing, they can wear sexier clothes and they just generally loosen up.

"There are women who join companies with large amounts of male employees with the sole intention of looking for a partner, and by that I mean an equity partner - one of the owners of the business."

She said that for such women, joining a large firm of accountants or solicitors can be more advantageous than signing up with a dating agency.

She warned: "A piranha will hang on for the kill and will rip any man to shreds."

Click here to read the full Daily Mail story.

The article goes on to discuss how these women hunt down these helpless men. So much for men are hunters, women are gatherers. Oh dear. I'm not sure I can comment further on this one and keep a straight face.