Where did you see or hear this Bill?    I don't get that impression at all.   

The difference is that those woman had no real power over me.  I was up to me to decide how I wanted to respond.   I never doubted my advantage.     ('playfull' joking gets way too attention and is mostly mutual, at least in my experience).  

I was told by a union rep in a auto company, not my own, that he had multiple offers for sex due to his position in the union.    It happens, but again, he didn't tell me that as complaint, he was bragging.

We agree that women have their own 'tool set', different than men, to get what they want.   Women generally can't win based on power in most cases, they are far more subtle in how they try to influence men.    
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While we are confessing, can we agree that men are very influenced by sexual attraction and that it can make them stupid?  I'm  guilty as hell, (less so at 64 though, but I'm not dead either,  lol).