# Would, does, or has an overly-sexily-dressed boss made you lose respect for him/her?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 15, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-does-or-has-an-overly-sexily-dressed-boss-made-you-lose-respect-for-him-her/725249 "2015-07-15T17:58:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-does-or-has-an-overly-sexily-dressed-boss-made-you-lose-respect-for-him-her/725249/41 "2015-07-17T20:25:08Z")

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Someone once mentioned “purple” to me. I wasn’t trying to be overly purple. Just liked the color and that day it so happened that the stars aligned and well, purple exploded. Purple shoes, purple pen, purple phone cover, purple shirt. I’ve been overly sensitive ever since. 😛

Course I’ve been known to occasionally wear 3 inch heels too, just 'cause. I do prefer that my buttons actually button.

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**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-does-or-has-an-overly-sexily-dressed-boss-made-you-lose-respect-for-him-her/725249/42 "2015-07-17T21:16:18Z")

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> [@JcWoman](#):
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> How about management level women who adorn their persons and offices with tons of pink? I was just in a meeting with someone, in her office and here are the pink items I saw:
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> blouse
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> bracelet
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> glasses
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> lipstick
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> fingernails
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> toys on her desk
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> folders in a paper file
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> pink marker writing all over her whiteboards
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> mouse
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> other little details like a photo of her dog in a baby wading pool where the pool was bright pink
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> People like this seem to be going overly childish to me, so I have trouble taking them seriously. I mean I’ve never seen someone go nuts with any other color like these “pink girls” do. And this isn’t the first one I’ve met.

If her cube is done up in Hello Kitty gear maybe. But if it’s normal stuff that happens to be pink, I don’t see why it should be different than any other color just because it’s associated with women. Getting matchy matchy with the office supplies is a little fussy, but whatever.

I considered naming my daughter a gender-neutral name, so that she could be taken more seriously in her career. Then I decided F that. Having a feminine name doesn’t make you any less professional, and I think we are slowly moving over that hump.

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