What we have here is a chatty Cathy running his mouth when he should be flying, and someone who did not belong in an airplane.
For the most part I think it would be best to have same sex crews. The male-female dynamic is not something that should be present on a flight deck. Call me a dinosaur or call me a chauvinist pig, I really don't care - this is clearly a case where this dude is chatting up this girl, running his mouth constantly instead of flying the airplane.
Continental can, and should, pay through the anus on this one. Horrible. Sheer stupidity of a like rarely encountered (e.g. kid in the cockpit, FE in the FO seat, lying braggart in the FO seat are some cases I remember).
-drl