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Wow, the judgement in that post. First of all, you think it is an opportunity for people to get the wrong idea, which I find preposterous, and the only way to

Wow, the judgement in that post. First of all, you think it is an opportunity for people to get the wrong idea, which I find preposterous, and the only way to fix that bias to show have counter-examples. Beyond that, your personal ideas about work/family balance are not global, stop projecting what you think is "healthy" onto others, you are not the arbiter of global truth.

tsotha 13y ago
>Wow, the judgement in that post. Wow, the faux outrage in that post. I wasn't proposing to make it illegal. I just said I think it's a bad idea. And I don't like to see this kind of thing becoming "normal", because it forces people like me to conduct business after hours.
- MetaCosm 13y ago
  You are missing the point. It is already "normal" -- and it is a major part of business networking. It happens all the time. An older man having dinner with his younger male business associate, no problem. If being a young women makes you "locked out" (due to social stigma on behalf of either party), it puts you at a perpetual disadvantage. Either you turn down an invite for useful business networking, or you are never invited because the other party already internalized the stigma. Due to the majority of gray hairs in industry being men, and the majority of current college graduates being women -- these type of quiet, almost polite disadvantages are worth talking about.
  - tsotha 13y ago
    >You are missing the point. It is already "normal" -- and it is a major part of business networking. It happens all the time. An older man having dinner with his younger male business associate, no problem. I'm not missing the point. My point is we don't have to worry about this if people don't do business dinners. It's not common in every industry, and IMO we should resist it where we can.

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Wow, the judgement in that post. First of all, you think it is an opportunity for people to get the wrong idea, which I find preposterous, and the only way to

by MetaCosm 13y ago

tsotha 13y ago
>Wow, the judgement in that post. Wow, the faux outrage in that post. I wasn't proposing to make it illegal. I just said I think it's a bad idea. And I don't like to see this kind of thing becoming "normal", because it forces people like me to conduct business after hours.
- MetaCosm 13y ago
  You are missing the point. It is already "normal" -- and it is a major part of business networking. It happens all the time. An older man having dinner with his younger male business associate, no problem. If being a young women makes you "locked out" (due to social stigma on behalf of either party), it puts you at a perpetual disadvantage. Either you turn down an invite for useful business networking, or you are never invited because the other party already internalized the stigma. Due to the majority of gray hairs in industry being men, and the majority of current college graduates being women -- these type of quiet, almost polite disadvantages are worth talking about.
  - tsotha 13y ago
    >You are missing the point. It is already "normal" -- and it is a major part of business networking. It happens all the time. An older man having dinner with his younger male business associate, no problem. I'm not missing the point. My point is we don't have to worry about this if people don't do business dinners. It's not common in every industry, and IMO we should resist it where we can.