An open question - There was recently a post about "Burning boats" comparing ancient wars to modern business. The author is male.<p>My question - do women ever use military metaphors in to explain business matters? I can't recall a single time.
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.<p>It's kinda like how you often see "capitulate" somewhere in an article about France (even if not related) -- it just works together ;-)