I see this a lot
Up here often there are jobs that are 90 plus percent men and just a few women. There is always the guy that gets played hard as the buddy while she ends up with a boss or someone from another craft.
I have seen women play( it is not hard - we volunteer to be played) men out of a lot of good assets. Duplexes, cars, lots of things. No one breaks these guys arms to do this stuff. It is like a standard old stageplay going on its millionth
showing and going strong. Often we see the women new to it go through the stages of awareness till she is a full fledged queen bee... smiles .. I just observe it all saying to myself please let me be wrong.