It probably won’t, no. Try to drink a Gatorade; if you don’t have any, put a pinch of salt in some tea or soda. If you get lightheaded or your heart starts beating fast, get thee to an ER for IV fluids.

Oh you know this nice guy is a hugger too!

Stay hydrated and please (if you can), get to a doctor. Feel better!

I think Plummer was Scott’s first choice for the role anyway, and the studio pushed for Spacey. Plummer may have resented Spacey already, making the decision to take the role super-easy for him.

To hear some of the dudes here and the world at large tell it, the fact that you and your coworker might have been attracted to each other but decided to keep a professional distance is the GREATEST TRAGEDY OF ALL TIME.

The mere fact that these men seem to think flirting at work is acceptable demonstrates how little they understand harassment. When the question is “perhaps I flirted in an inappropriate way?!” the answer is yes, because flirting is in itself inappropriate.

I dunno how that is NOT harassment. Have we crossed the sexual rubicon to the point that asking a woman to watch you jerk off is acceptable behavior? Take it out of the colleague realm for a moment, Cabbie asks. Passenger says no thank you. Everybody cool with that? How about a waiter? “My name is Eliot and I’ll be…

You really don’t see the problem with asking a colleague in a professional situation if they’ll watch you masturbate? He has power over the careers/opportunities these women are exposed to. Do you do that at work? Walk into the lunch room and ask the first woman you see if she’ll look at your dick?

Crazy how much people overthink how complicated this all is. It’s really easy to understand!

Mandatory fun is one of the pains of childhood. I refuse to participate as an adult. (small) part of the reason I freelance. When I was a full-time, salaried employee I would have preferred the money from the party go to something more useful, like a small boost to everyone’s bonus or small hourly wage for the unpaid…

My least favorite has got to be this study about how men don’t give women life-saving CPR because they’re afraid to touch their chests?

The fact that the man thinks flirting with coworkers is okay throws every point he made off. In most professional environments this is totally inappropriate.

Right? Like if you can’t act like a fucking human alone with a female coworker I think you might need to live on a island by yourself somewhere. I know it should be internally generated that you not be a total greasy fucking creep but it might help a little if more workplaces had actual sexual harassment guidelines…

Does anyone ever really want to go to the office Xmas party anyway?

Yeah; except that they aren’t the ones hurt by it. We are.

Seriously? You’re not sure if you are “allowed” to flirt with women at the office party, so you cancel the party entirely? Why not have the party anyway, and just don’t flirt? You know, treat it like a work event where you can mingle and be social but still be professional and treat your colleagues respectfully? Save…

Seriously. The answer isn’t to avoid being alone with women. The answer is to be able to be alone with a woman without acting like a creep.

Any guy scared enough to be adopting the Mike Pence rule is a guy who needs to adopt the Mike Pence rule. Let them tell on themselves.

I believe that the same article (or another similar one) spoke of (to me) a far more worrying development. Men following the “Mike Pence rule”: Never be alone with a woman; and do not attend gatherings with women where alcohol is served — either without one’s spouse (or at all).