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Do you extend the same principles to homosexual men? Are homosexual women exempted? I find it easier to not have to consider the sexual preferences of my cowor
by tetrep 9y ago
Do you extend the same principles to homosexual men? Are homosexual women exempted?
I find it easier to not have to consider the sexual preferences of my coworkers when I'm interacting with them.
Edit: I should add, if someone is going to attack my character, they're going to do it regardless of what I do. I'm not going to go out of my way to prevent that.
Similar to using encryption everywhere you can: it makes the use of it non-suspicious. The last thing I want is for being alone with a coworker to be implicitly suspicious because the new norm is this sillyness.
- Dylan16807 9y ago> Do you extend the same principles to homosexual men? Are homosexual women exempted? The worry is about him appearing plausibly improper, so their sexuality doesn't matter.
- s73ver_ 9y agoRight, but the implication is that they'd be just fine meeting one on one with another man. That it's only women who get treated specially.
- Dylan16807 9y agoYes, that's the point. That this paranoia is bad for women. And the paranoia is all about a man with any element of power interacting with a woman. The first party's sexuality is somewhat relevant, but the latter's doesn't matter at all.
- s73ver_ 9y agoI'm sorry, but that paranoia is pure cowardice. If someone in power cannot meet with someone one on one without attempting anything, then they do not deserve to be in that position, full stop.
- Dylan16807 9y ago> that paranoia is pure cowardice Sure. > If someone in power cannot meet with someone one on one without attempting anything Uh, that's not what the paranoia is. The paranoia is about accusations.
- s73ver_ 9y agoAnd I don't buy that. People who aren't sexual predators don't have to worry about that.
- Dylan16807 9y ago> have to worry Fear isn't rational. You can't imagine someone in this situation that's excessively worried about a very unlikely but possible occurrence, and acts based on that fear?
- s73ver_ 9y agoIf they're that driven by fear, they do not deserve to be in that position. And if they're that afraid of it, it's probably because they know they're likely to act in that manner. I have zero sympathy whatsoever for those cowards, and I extremely abhor the implied insinuation that women won't receive opportunities in the future unless they allow themselves to be harassed and shut up about it.
- abiox 9y agopresumably, the rate of male v male harassment accusations is very low (at least relatively), and as such doesn't much play into risk aversion.