I’m not slapping a label on you, dude.

Oh fuck off. It is not a reasonable request to want a safe work environment free of harassment but also want the opportunity to advance. Never being in a meeting alone with a man would demolish my career, because I ONLY WORK WITH MEN. I will not accept that I just can’t do my dream career because the poor men just…

Same here. Woman in oil & gas/engineering. If the men I work with all decided they could no longer have meetings/eat alone with me, I’d literally have a hard time being a productive worker because literally all of the other project manager/engineers ARE MEN. Luckily, they treat me like a human and the world keeps…

It would be nice if the only thing that mattered was the quality of your work. But after 30 years in the corporate world, I can tell you that’s almost never the case.

You should make sure you are never alone with men or children, either.

I would also note that nothing about avoiding women protects you from false accusations. I know two men who were exonerated (one for rape and one for harassment). The guy who was accused of rape never met the woman who accused him. He was never alone with her. She just claimed he attacked her at night. It turned out…

“I believe that following certain principles, like not allowing myself to be alone with a woman who isn’t my wife or a relative, is better for everyone. Better for me, so I can’t misinterpret any signals that might be sent to me from women, better for my wife, she knows that I follow these principles and she can have…

However if you cannot be in a room with an attractive woman without grabbing her ass, maybe you shouldn’t be in a position of power in the first place. Either way, unintended consequences abound.

“in the end those are missed opportunities to collaborate, so they will pay for it over time”

I am a married woman who has worked in several male-dominated workplaces and has many male friends. There has never been a misunderstanding, nor have my friends or colleagues felt the need to touch me in an uninvited way or harass me. I make a point of socializing with my male colleagues so that I won’t miss out on…

This may be a shocking suggestion, but seeing as how you are married. Even if a women is giving off “mixed” signals that you just simply cannot interpret. Don’t try to fuck her you are married. You are trying to sound like some super awesome gentleman, you aren’t by your own admission you are a creep who would cheat…

A thousand times YES! Normal men aren’t worried about “accidental harassment” because it’s not a thing. If a man literally has no control over himself, by all means, we would like him to please remove himself from the general working population. They can all go into the supply closet together and keep asking each…

I’d bet money he’s afraid of women doing that because he’s done it to women, often. Harassers are the kings of projection.

Actually the correct answer in a professional environment is don’t try to fuck a coworker at all, regardless of who gives the indication that they want it to occur. It has nothing to do with whether it is the woman that wants to be fucked or the man. The whole issue here is the power someone can hold over another to…

Barf. All those heartless shrews taking advantage of us men! God you’re a fucking idiot.

Or how about they just don’t try to fuck women who don’t want to fuck them and not jerk off in front of women who don’t want to see them jerk off? I’ve been going with this sentiment for about 20 years and it has worked out well for me.

Great, right??? I can’t wait for deals and jobs to be brokered in men-only spaces again!

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…

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

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.