It’s sure a good thing that women never talk about men that way. Us men would get really upset if they looked at us as chunks of hot meat.
My wife worked in a regional grocery chain for some time. I would visit her at lunch sometimes, and the women there had the most vile language I had ever heard. I don’t remember it as being particularly offensive; at least to me, because that’s how men talked about women at the time. I just thought, “Hey, I guess it works both ways”, and got lots of laughs out of listening to those women.
That said, that was over twenty years ago, and things have changed since then. I’ve since had a co-worker I considered a very close friend get right in my face about a perfectly innocuous comment I made about her appearance. It was a compliment!
Then, I had our plant hygienist explode on me when I brought up a perfectly legitimate safety concern. And I do mean EXPLODE! I was shocked! She had already filed two groundless complaints against other men, and I thought I was next.
SO, I went to my union steward, explained the situation, and told him I wasn’t going to HR, I was going to Corporate Ethics. Union steward told me immediately they were behind me 100%. I made sure that word got back to the hygienist, let her sweat for a few days, then dropped the matter. One of the biggest regrets of my life.
I agonize daily how many other men that b***h had gotten into trouble.