The maenads as a life lesson
Oct. 3rd, 2017 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kestrellThose who know me are aware of my fondness for maenads so, while I like to think that I am open to stories being open to personal interpretation, I could not help but feel that the writer of this article
https://richtopia.com/women-leaders/maenad-career-lessons-dionysus
which uses the maenads to illustrate things not to do in one's corporate career, had somewhat missed the boat.
Here are some lessons I have learned from maenads.
1. Being a maenad is an alternate lifestyle.
2. Maenads do not participate in any activity which requires wearing pantyhose, because wearing pantyhose detracts from the joy of dancing barefoot.
3. Maenads are the opposite of passive aggressive, believing, as they do, that if something gets in your way you should rend it and wear its skin. This may be aggressive, but it isn't passive agressive.
4. Maenads do not tolerate sexual harassment, in or out of the office, and even adopted wearing live snakes as belts as an anti-rape device. Live snakes!
5. Dionysus is a lot more fun to work for than any corporate boss, and that king had it coming anyway for disrespecting Dionysus's mom.
https://richtopia.com/women-leaders/maenad-career-lessons-dionysus
which uses the maenads to illustrate things not to do in one's corporate career, had somewhat missed the boat.
Here are some lessons I have learned from maenads.
1. Being a maenad is an alternate lifestyle.
2. Maenads do not participate in any activity which requires wearing pantyhose, because wearing pantyhose detracts from the joy of dancing barefoot.
3. Maenads are the opposite of passive aggressive, believing, as they do, that if something gets in your way you should rend it and wear its skin. This may be aggressive, but it isn't passive agressive.
4. Maenads do not tolerate sexual harassment, in or out of the office, and even adopted wearing live snakes as belts as an anti-rape device. Live snakes!
5. Dionysus is a lot more fun to work for than any corporate boss, and that king had it coming anyway for disrespecting Dionysus's mom.
