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If women sitting behind me makes a period joke I'd be totally fine with it. People attend Professional conferences and people have personality. I'd rather to go
by songzme 14y ago
If women sitting behind me makes a period joke I'd be totally fine with it. People attend Professional conferences and people have personality. I'd rather to go to professional conference and meet people for who they are and not their professional facade.
- wpietri 14y agoI understand why you think reversing the genders is a good way to have an intuition about whether this is reasonable. But it's not, because you still bring along a lot of your experience with you into the hypothetical. You're used to being in the majority. You are unlikely to have experienced unwanted sexual advances, sexual harassment, or sexual assault. You are at low risk of those happening in the future. So a period joke (which isn't sexual) wouldn't phase you. Even some joke that does sexualize the context probably wouldn't bother you. You'll still feel as safe and respected as before. But that's not true for a lot of women.