Re:When It’s Hard for Women to Find Male Mentors
by OhSoHumble on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @05:43PM
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This is actually something that has happened to me before. A female coworker came to me asking if I could help her learn some skills that would advance her career. I agreed to teach her and she ended up making romantic advancements toward me. I immediately told my significant other what was happening and started working towards resolving the issue.
The incident made me fairly wary.
Re:When It’s Hard for Women to Find Male Mentors
by jimmywanger on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @07:10PM
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Agreed. I had a free ticket to a comedy show, and I wanted to give it away without it going to waste - I had to think very hard and carefully about if I wanted to offer it to a female coworker on short notice.
The comedian in question did some rather blue jokes, and that could possibly be construed as harassment. It's a shame you can't just offer tickets to coworkers of the opposite sex without worrying about consequences.
In the article, there is a direct quote from the person being interviewed. "If they only do things with people of the same sex, that is discrimination."
Maybe your wife/gf is really jealous and you'd prefer not to walk into that minefield. This article is proposing more regulations to solve a problem that was caused by legislation to begin with.