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My daughter's only three months, so I've still got no actual field experience, but i only beleive in "hitting" in a small, situational sense. As punishment, no. As a way to imprint certain thigns into the child, perhaps.

If my daughter reaches for the oven, i'll move her away. If she just comes back, i may give her a small sharp slap on the hand as she almost touches it, so she relates touching the oven with pain. I'd only do this based on the logic that, should she touch it when i'm not there to stop her, it'll hurt alot more, and cause real damage.

The smack for running into the road i can understand. The smack for not tidying a room i cannot personally justify.

My personal worst Dark Lord would have to be my pet kitten. He tries to be so evil, but then goes off and plays with the babies cot-piano thing.

The best has to go to the Crippled God of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. There's a badguy that doesn't only want to destroy the other side, but his own side at the same time.

Pretty much exactly the point that I wanted to make Hoshiko. When typcasting based on image is favored over actual qualifications for the job, it hurts everybody. In the case of liquor vendors, however, I might add that the tactic can sometimes actually work (being that as a whole, simple minded males are very receptive to the 'hot chicks' angle) however this does not phase out the importance of a quality product or even knowledgable representitives.

The last trade-show I actually made it to, it seemed as if the 'hot chicks' were working mostly for companies that sell mediocre vodkas. However, I will add that I thought the asian girl at the jagermeister stand was very attractive (but dignified.) Also a number of female representives at that show who obviously deserved their jobs. Its just that it seemed obvious that there were a few who got hired simply for their sex appeal.

Anyway, I have worked for people in the past that before even considering hiring a potential female applicant would ask the question 'is she hot'. The real problem is simply that people like this exist, and manage to find themselves in positions that afford them a little ( or in some cases ) a lot of authority.

Anyway, ignorance is out there, its just that it doesnt have a central organization.

Looking at it from both sides of the bar, an attractive woman attracts young men in, and convinces them to spend money. Now, it isn't difficult to train an intelligent person into a star member of the bar team, as long as they have a fairly outgoing personality, are at least semi intresting, and have some common sense. So, why would one hire an unattractive female, or a male, when they could boost profits with a nice pair of tits?

Who cares if it's fair, if it brings in more money? By definition, the looks make them a better bartender than a similarly skilled ugly person.