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	Phil's Blogservations Thursday, February 24, 2005 Posted by philgomes 4:36 PM PoweR Girls Pt. II PoweR Girls Pt. II My reaction to the PoweR Girls idea got me thinking about something I read a long time ago in Charles H. Ferguson's High Stakes, No Prisoners. Check it out: The [PR] women are smart, hard as nails, ruthless, and often stunningly gorgeous. The rank and file is completely dominated by attractive young women, various combinations of dragon lady and bimbette, whose job is social lubrication — opening doors, getting interviews, pushing you through a crowd toward sometone they're just dying to have you meet. This basic model was pioneered by Regis McKenna, who built one of the first Silicon Valley PR firms in the early 1980s using his army of "Regettes." A lot of the front-line PR women marry their clients; the stereotypical marriage is the forty-yer-old wealthy entrepreneur and his twenty-five-year-old blonde. Not sure how this show is going to necessarily elevate this perception but, nevertheless, I remain curious. Read what Ferguson had to say about PR men: The [PR] men generally reminded me of my reaction to Clinton advisors like Dick Morris or David Gergen — greasy, overweight, amoral, somehow pathetic even when extremely successful. Oh, my... HOME | OBSESSIONS | FAQ | HEROES | CAREER | BLOG | CONTACT Note that the views expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect those of Phil's employer, its business partners, its clients, or anyone or anything that doesn't come from Phil.	ABOUT THIS BLOG This blog not only discusses PR and media matters, but Phil's everyday observations about a variety of topics. EMAIL phil[at] philgomes[[dot}]com SYNDICATE Feedburner ARCHIVE YAHOO! IM SKYPE WISH LIST PITCH POLICY MY PHOTOS www.flickr.com Photostream RSS Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz COMMENT AND TRACKBACK POLICY Comments and trackbacks are unmoderated, though I will delete the patently offensive ones. Any comments and trackbacks are the opinions of the individual writer of those comments and trackbacks, and not those of Phil Gomes, his employer, its clients, or its business partners. If you have a bone to pick, bug the people who wrote the comment or trackback.