As per the graceful Japanese tradition, the term ‘geisha’ describes an ‘artist’. It brings to mind the picture of a brown-eyed, straight haired tiny girl who is sold into servitude before her virginity is auctioned off to the highest bidder.

But today ‘geisha-dom’ is changing; it has nothing to do precisely with Japanese women. Neither the tiny stature nor the brown-eyes come into picture. Today ‘geisha-dom’ is being considered as ones ticket to enter into the board room. It nothing more than the hyper-exaggeration of femininity by which submission turns out to be domination. ‘Geisha-dom’ has now taken the shape of a self-help text on how to survive in the modern corporate workplace.



If one can flaunt some of her assets and get that seductive accent to fetch something like a great career, a successful husband or an influential lover plus a house in Mayfair just like Kimberly Quinn got...then this is nothing less than being a ‘geisha’ or rather the sophisticated ‘board-room geisha’.



So, if you consider your hair to be one of the seduction tools to be tossed to devastating effect and you speak in breathy tones making men lean in towards you and you have a tendency to simper while you’re stitching up everyone in a 20 foot radius.



Love wearing tight clothes that are constantly popping open, while you consider your female colleagues as your enemy...then mind it baby...you are a perfect product to be a ‘Board-room Geisha’.



Via: The Observer