But that was not the gist of the article! This was a sweeping condemnation of all romantic workplace relationships, bc someone HAS to make a first awkward step in order to explore if there is even the most remote possibility of any social relationships outside of work.

“Dating” is NOT the first step to forming social relationships with people at work, being friends is.”

That’s not how I read this when I quoted the article. I’ve been witness to a lot of workplace relationships over the years and quite a few initiated by women, curiously, none of those have ever been qualified as ‘sexual harassment’.

So you completely ignore the reality of life and every survey that clearly states that a majority of people do not condemn workplace relationships and 30-40 % have experienced at least one workplace relationship. Since you seem to know so little about human nature, you’d probably even suggest gender segregation at the…

I guess I made that clear in my last sentence, but asking a co-worker out on a date can be interpreted as sexual harassment as well.

Why don’t you tell that to the millions of men (and women) whose relationship started at the workplace? Is any romantic workplace relationship wrong and if not, who is supposed to take the first step and how?

Yep, just like Anchorman is a documentary about tv journalism.

Before Hitler became chancellor of Germany he had already committed a crime, that was in most cases punishable by death at the time. In 1923 he staged a coup known as the ‘Beer hall Putsch’, trying to topple the Bavarian government, with the clear goal to go after the national government in Berlin after a successful…

Prince wrote and recorded it with a side project named ‘The Family’ in 1985. Sinead O’Connor recorded it in 1990. It is his song, he didn’t need to ‘claim’ it.

Dolly Parton wrote the song and recorded it, Whitney Houston made it famous, just like Nothing Compares 2 U was written and recorded by Prince, yet almost everybody identifies it as Sinead O’Connor’s song. Nothing to be angry about.

Bey’s voice was thin and trailing off at the high notes. If that was “perfect”, then perfect doesn’t mean what I always thought it meant.

Thanks for your input sweetie, it’s appreciated. Now go back doing whatever it is you’re usually doing.

the law is about someone going for a cheap rhetorical win by destroying proportion

If rhetoric and desire are reasons enough for a Hitler comparison, then comparing someone to Hitler serves no purpose whatsoever. Starting a ‘Trump is Hitler’ campaign could spectacularyl backfire, bc most people would be inclined to defend this buffoon in light of the historic context. Trump could depict himself as…

I agree, but comparing 2016 USA to 1933 Germany is still ludicrous, imo. We should be able to criticize this guy without losing focus on any historical context.

The political, economical and social conditions in Germany 1933 vs 21st century America are incomparable. That’s what makes this comparison so ludicrous.

You are comparing a racist to a mass murderer! Where do you go from there? You’re like the guy who claims that this latest movie is ‘hands down the worst movie in the history of cinema’. Your former president actually committed war crimes, illegally occupied countries and tortured people. He must be even worse than…

Hint - it’s not the graduate student.

I still don’t get the apple, unless it’s ‘An apple a day keeps the teacher away’ or something.