“I miss those days”.
Me, too (coming from the female perspective). If a male co-worker told me, “You’ve got a great set of pegs”, “it made my day”, as you say.
When I began my career in the late ‘60s, going to work was fun. Enter the PC Police. By the time I retired in 2008, you were suurrounded by humorless tight-asses.
Same here. A little compliment, even a little flirting was harmless. If a man did go too far, we handled it ourselves in a firm, no-nonsense manner. We didn’t have to go sobbing to HR about it.
I know a woman who was quite beautiful when she was in her twenties. But as time marches on the damage it does is plentiful and she said ‘ I’m invisible to men ‘.
She said she so missed the attention and considerations shown to her in her younger days.
Now, in her 50s, it’s gone.
- and for me as well I should add. The only consideration I have received in recent years ( and quite recently ) is from women in need of a green card.