It's offensive, to a woman, to talk to her without permission from her male guardian. It's offensive, to a woman, to ask for some man's permission to talk to h

It's offensive, to a woman, to talk to her without permission from her male guardian. It's offensive, to a woman, to ask for some man's permission to talk to her. Both of these are true. Both of these are false. In order to know what's offensive for any given group, a written summary is extremely helpful. Posit a group of people brought together from around the world from many varied cultures. They have no way to know what is, and is not, acceptable behaviour. Insisting that people just "behave like adults" is no help at all when different societies can have wildly different views of the correct behaviour of adults, and you also get the effect that each of them believes they are behaving like an adult and it's the other people who are wrong. It's a recipe for disaster.