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Men now avoid women at work – another sign we're being punished for #MeToo
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 8/29/2019 | Arwa Mahdawi

Posted on 08/30/2019 10:20:14 AM PDT by RightGeek

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To: caseinpoint

As a woman I have also told men if they were out of bounds, or I’ve stayed away from them entirely if they were too handsy. I never went to HR about it but handled things myself. That’s what a grown-up does. Then again, I wasn’t trying to climb any corporate ladders.


101 posted on 08/30/2019 11:27:01 AM PDT by punknpuss
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To: bert

I worked a temporary job in Connecticut for ten and a half months. There the office chatting was about personal entertainment. Everyone told each other where they were going to eat out, what movie, concert, or sporting event they had seen, and so on. For example, my cubicle was next to a guy who had season tickets for the NY Yankees, and every time he went to a game, he told us very politely, so we wouldn’t think he was a snob.


102 posted on 08/30/2019 11:29:54 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: max americana

A lot of us had jobs where we were working 60-80 hours per week. So where else are you going to meet someone?


103 posted on 08/30/2019 11:30:15 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: TomServo
..."almost a third of men are terrified to be alone in a room with a woman."

Terrified? I say they are smart; very smart.

104 posted on 08/30/2019 11:30:50 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: Veto!

Maybe she was waiting for the opportunity

She’s divorcing simply based on suspicion

That’s unusual

Or did I read it wrong

Any man who’s heard a woman threaten

“ I’ll take the kids and break you financially you mfer “

I’ve heard that twice and

It wasn’t for cheating or abuse


105 posted on 08/30/2019 11:30:58 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: Berosus

I worked with a guy who I swear only ever had sex so that he could come to me and brag about it the next morning.

I would have much rather put-up with an arrogant Yankee fan.


106 posted on 08/30/2019 11:31:35 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: RightGeek
It used to be that women and men could work alone together and it was nobody's business if it got sexual or not. Any guy that was a leech developed a reputation rather quickly, and women would avoid them. "Just Say No" to aggressive flirtations did, and still does (from my experience) work just fine.

I believe only a small percentage of the "Me Too" women. That's because there were so many opportunities for easy encounters that men didn't have to make unwelcome advances. The big problem was women who used sexual favors to get unfair advantage on the job.

How did we reach the crazy point society is at now? How does anyone have any fun?

107 posted on 08/30/2019 11:33:46 AM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: HangnJudge

That’s such a great thing.. glad to hear I am not the only one. If it feels wrong, there is every reason to err on the safe side.


108 posted on 08/30/2019 11:33:51 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: Cuttnhorse
Yep, soon as quarters was ending all the smokers would head for the smoke-deck, with me right in the middle of them.
I commented more than once I'll be damned if I'm going to bust my hump while you all are out here cokin’ and smokin’!

Hell, I'd even fly for sodas if some else was buying on occasion.

15 minutes per hour is ridiculous!

My thoughts and observations, your mileage may vary.

109 posted on 08/30/2019 11:34:12 AM PDT by thinkthenpost
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To: TomServo

Where did that data come from?

My guess: a polling station was set up in a shopping center asking people to participate in a poll on how they deal with women in the workplace.

I think most people that don’t have women-at-work issues wouldn’t bother with the poll. Who does that leave that take the poll?


110 posted on 08/30/2019 11:35:35 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: LibFreeUSA

Perhaps I should “ loosen up”
But it’s not likely to happen,
I’m old and set in my ways


111 posted on 08/30/2019 11:36:07 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: polymuser

I think a lot of young white educated men are indeed terrified easily

Have you seen how they look lately?

It’s weird....so feminine and soft..
Nerdy

I was at lunch yesterday and in walks a twentysomething leggy beauty in heels with a man of thick blonde hair

I checked her out ...she smiled like she didn’t mind being admired even though half my age as usual nowadays

The guys from work with her were not gay but so faggy and weak looking white boys

It’s pathetic

I blame parents


112 posted on 08/30/2019 11:36:35 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: grania
How does anyone have any fun?

It starts by recognizing the total absurdity of those who need to pretend that men and women are interchangeable. The differences are the most profound factors in human existence!

Feminist War On Love & Reason

113 posted on 08/30/2019 11:40:48 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“So where else are you going to meet someone?”

****

Exactly! You go to a bar and making an effort to pick up another chick? Stupid. It’s just called “maximizing your time” with the “assets” around you.


114 posted on 08/30/2019 11:44:36 AM PDT by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy it. I hope every lib die.)
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To: wardaddy

“Have you seen how they look lately?
It’s weird....so feminine and soft..”

Spent a week living in downtown Washington DC recently. Know what you mean.

Hipsters, skinny jeans/pants, perfect hair cuts, dyed hair on and on. All of our waiters were gay men.

I live in rural Appalachia. Men are still men for the most part. It was a big shock.


115 posted on 08/30/2019 11:46:48 AM PDT by setter
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To: wardaddy

Sorry about your situation, I know those things occur. But this couple is different. And older.

They have three grown children. They put all three of them through college without assistance. When she told them about the divorce, her son said, “What took you so long?” They’d had a very contentious marriage and hadn’t been happy in decades. Husband was always going places like Alaska with another man whose trips he fully financed. Lots of money missing from their accounts. This is a community property state, and she’s not stupid.

But she put up with it for years because she did NOT want a divorce.

At this point, hubby moved into a very pricey condo WITH THE OTHER MAN. What does that tell you?

My friend, at 60, is better looking than most women ever are. And she’s in no hurry to meet another man. May never.


116 posted on 08/30/2019 11:48:35 AM PDT by Veto! (Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me))
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To: wardaddy

As a Northern boy, I was always favorably impressed by the fact that if you smiled at a sweet looking young women, South of the Ohio river or the Mason-Dixon line, she would smile back, in a response far more to be cherished than the deliberate avoidance of eye contact, likely to be offered by a pretty young Northern girl. (Of course that was all before the tendency of the potential dears to be in an awareness bubble shield, conjured up with a cell phone.)


117 posted on 08/30/2019 11:50:35 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: max americana

Full disclosure: I met my wife at work.

Dating employees was actually against company policy. Which was totally hypocritical because back at the Home Office they were having three weddings a month.


118 posted on 08/30/2019 11:50:54 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: House Atreides
Your post reminds me on these lines from Rudyard Kipling’s poem The Young British Soldier.

“Now, if you must marry, take care she is old “A troop-sergeant’s widow’s the nicest I/m told “For beauty won’t help if your rations are cold, “Nor love ain’t enough for a soldier “Nough, nough, nough for a solder

About the NFL, my annual letters I now include this one for September

Our National Anthem

The Star-Spangled Banner provides the majestic musical/visual symbol of the Constitution I swore to support and defend as a Navy officer. My indefinitely binding oath requires standing for the National Anthem and kneeling to pray for the country.

The NFL, ESPN, And Nike endorse the offense of kneeling when the anthem is played to disparage the country and to support social justice illusions. But veterans understand settling genuine grievances requires revering the essence of our country and trusting in the freedoms it represents.

We are aware that when armed forces members make the ultimate sacrifice they are wrapped in the Star-Spangled Banner in remembrance of freedom. When America’s fallen arrive at Dover Air Force Base from the Middle East their caskets are covered with a Star-Spangled Banner. When they are buried the flag is removed, elegantly folded, and given to a spouse, child, sibling, or parent.

Previously success was defined by marriage, raising kids, career, etc. Now a fashionable consensus defines success around one group adjusting behaviors to validate the emotional damage others have decided to inflict upon themselves for endless perceived slights. The instigators gain a prestige lacking dreams to pursue or accomplishment to celebrate. The subservient parties acquire costless moral superiority by holding themselves and the country in disgust.

I will always choose success through the hazards and uncertainties of personal freedom over sheltering within codependent relationships. This country needs “a new birth of freedom” to remain faithful to the Constitution as the embodiment of the American ideal.

The Liberal Mind by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D.

Meaning of the Folding of the American flag https://www.truthorfiction.com/foldsoftheflag/

The Case Against Liberal Compassion https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-case-against-liberal-compassion/

Constitution Society: John Locke CHAP. V Of Property. http://www.constitution.org/jl/2ndtr05.htm

Property by James Madison http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/property-by-james-madison-march-29-1792.html

119 posted on 08/30/2019 12:02:45 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

LOL congrats


120 posted on 08/30/2019 12:07:43 PM PDT by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy it. I hope every lib die.)
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