But Liz Bingham, EY's managing partner for talent in the UK & Ireland, argues that there is a place for them: "Women-only networks are about so much more than prosecco and cupcakes.
It's saccharin sweet and utterly addictive – like reality TV, but with cupcakes.
They're amazing, they phone me and say, "Tink, can you bring us some of those vegan cupcakes?" and I say, "Absolutely, no bother".
And if that hasn't reduced you to tears, you will be weeping into your cupcakes when you watch Jamie Oliver's workforce create a 40th birthday surprise for the celebrity TV chef, complete with Star Wars characters, a huge birthday cake, a robot, and teams wearing his trademark plaid shirts.
The analysis shows girls will write enthusiastically about cupcakes, unicorns and marshmallows.
Who knows, by being in this together, and with renewed striving, we might get yet closer to the dream of lovely cupcakes, swimming pools in excavated basements, personal-number-plated Mitsuboyan 4X4 SS Landbruisers, large sofas with forward recliners, box sets of interminable foreign crime programmes and surveillance for all.
Cupcakes with white icing were deemed constitutional, but not red or green, Mr Gibson reports.
This unassuming item switched from a kid's treat to an adult indulgence thanks to a 20-second clip in "Sex and the City" from 2000 that instantly made cupcakes the munchy of choice for fashionable, independent urbanites.The "agricultural trend" is when growers develop a food and persuade chefs to start using it.
A pop-up chapel will be erected in Central Park on July 30th, providing an officiating person and cupcakes.
He sees no difference in principle between the high of illegal drugs, the sugar rush of cupcakes and the blinking red light on a BlackBerry that signals a new message.
This year their eclectic projects will include fire-breathing robots, wearable computers, self-replicating three-dimensional printers (whatever they are) and giant motorised cupcakes.
