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Originally Posted by kunkstyle
Are we going to pretend that sexual assault translates into who asks whom out for a date?
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Who said anything about sexual assault? I thought we were talking about harassment, a behaviour that is sufficiently broad and subjective that there can be genuine confusion about when it takes place (i.e. what constitutes an inappropriate joke or unwanted attention).
Behaving among colleagues the way you would behave around your mom or sister isn't especially useful advice once we move beyond the workplace and into mixed social settings outside work. Unless women want men who are interested in dating to treat them like their sister. Which I doubt.
People want this to be simple, straightforward stuff. But it isn't. Humans get social cues mixed up all the time, especially in a liberal, open culture like ours, where mating behaviour isn't strictly controlled by convention and enforced by parents or religious authorities.