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Okay then. It took you a while, and a few unnecessary (ho ho ho) downvotes of my posts but we finally agree: The smart move for any male leader is to never spend any 1on1 time with female subordinates, and unfortunately ignore how that might affect her career

Surely a more necessary risk than ev-, wouldn't you agree?

That's a very subjective definition of unnecessary risk. Clearly there are potential rewards (ev+ if you're into poker or ai) in starting your own company.

Helping a stranger get promoted? At the risk of ending your career (a massive loss for most people)? With the only reward being feeling good for Doing The Right Thing (tm)? Not so much

No good leader is taking unnecessary risks. In fact, if you study history, taking unnecessary risks has been the downfall of many otherwise great leaders

This is silly. Don't reduce me to some risk averse weakling because I'm not willing to put my neck out for strangers for little to no reward. If you're like that, and you regularly go to Africa to help people, more power to you. I'm not. Most people are not.

Everyone is like this, and everyone knows it. But you're not supposed to talk about it.

Besides, thoughts are just thoughts. You can choose to try to not act on them

Definitely. But what are you supposed to do? "Don't overstep boundaries", sure, but that's not a very practical advice. In this life you will overstep sometimes. Like bugs in code, it's unfortunate, but unavoidable.

I wouldn't risk my career for a man, so why should I risk it for a woman? The rational thing seems to be playing it safe.

The whole situation is nuts

Why are comments like this allowed? Putting fingers in your ears and scream "no!!!" over and over is not very useful or constructive