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[...] >But we all kept our mouth shut, and picked the safe side of things. She left defeated, perhaps humiliated. Anti-sexual harassment training, and more br
by TMWNN 5y ago
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>But we all kept our mouth shut, and picked the safe side of things. She left defeated, perhaps humiliated.
Anti-sexual harassment training, and more broadly the discouraging of socialization between men and women, has also reduced the opportunity for men and women to marry. The flip side of the male executive no longer being able to chase his secretary around a desk to try to pinch her on the butt is another executive not being able to politely court the secretary he is in love with (and vice versa).
I don't have a good answer for how to get the one without the other, but both are consequences of modern sensibilities.
- fleddr 5y agoThere's different takes on this. To me, the workplace is free of romance or any sexual advance of any kind from my part. I would never go beyond minor superficial personal interest (how was your holiday) at the coffee machine, and it ends there. Even if interest was shown in me, I'd deflect. Not going to happen. That said, I do agree with the larger overall point that in today's digital and more sensitive world (don't have a better word), it likely is harder for people to connect that way.