> Men don't, or don't want to, realize they frequently misinterpret so-called "signals", or don't pay attention to them at all. There's a sad truth that women a

> Men don't, or don't want to, realize they frequently misinterpret so-called "signals", or don't pay attention to them at all. There's a sad truth that women actually send signals men completely miss, The sad truth, is that (some) men are bad at receiving signals and (some) women are bad at sending them. > while men actually pick up signals that were never sent. Some women(and men) subconsciously send out signals that can be interpreted as an invitation, especially if we are talking about people from different cultures. > After almost 35 years of life as a heterosexual man who doesn't have much trouble with women, here are a few general rules and suggestions on how to handle interactions with women to ensure you don't ever "misread" signals. I'll give them in a half-assed order of importance. Some people actually do have a problem with reading other people. There are a lot of them in tech. > I seriously cannot believe we're still having this conversation in 2016. Society is moving constantly and there are problems that will just never go away, because it's just hardwired to our monkey brain. I am in no way excusing sexism and harassment, however I see that reality is more complicated than "men evil, women good". If we go down the path of stigmatizing men and come up with more severe laws to punish them, the divide that caused this mess will only get bigger.