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Re:This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup by ZenoArrow on Friday January 24, 2014 @06:00PM (#7118799)
Okay, so that's what women should do, then what should men do?
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Re:This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup by gnaritas on Friday January 24, 2014 @06:04PM (#7118817)
Obviously, not be total jerks like that guy and grope women you don't know. I'm not blaming her at all, don't mean to imply that. He was in the wrong.
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Re:This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup by ZenoArrow on Saturday January 25, 2014 @04:46AM (#7120380)
Sure, I didn't think you were blaming her, but I do think the issues go deeper.

Think about it from the perspective of the groper. He perhaps doesn't understand why the action was uncalled for, in his mind he was just being 'friendly' or 'flirty', a little forward but nothing more. How is there this disconnect between these mostly harmless intentions and the inappropriate actions that followed? Certainly a level of ignorance and/or lack of emotional intelligence is at play. So as men, what can we do to help change this?

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