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kudos to you for sharing this and standing your ground. This behaviour is simply unacceptable on all counts and we should collectively check this here. I wonder
by peteridah 12y ago
kudos to you for sharing this and standing your ground. This behaviour is simply unacceptable on all counts and we should collectively check this here. I wonder if the OP is open to naming this investor.
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- tptacek 12y agoAm I reading right that you're sticking up for the abstraction of the person who would harass a woman at a pitch event?
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- bmelton 12y agoSticking up for the possibility that maybe the guy didn't realize he was touching her breast seems like a worthwhile endeavor to me.
- DanBC 12y agoYou can avoid any possibility of touching someone's breast by not putting your arm around them in a business meeting.
- bmelton 12y agoWithout getting into uber-pedantry, I completely agree. That said, if I had a nickel for every time I saw two completely platonic persons hugging in a business meeting, workplace, etc., I'd have a lot of nickels. Some people prefer to hug. My wife, for example, finds handshakes creepy, and the myriad of rules surrounding them even more so. As a woman, she (thankfully?) has never had anyone complain, but nobody knows if anyone has ever been weirded out by it. Still, it's premature to break out the pitchforks and take the word of one person we don't know about the insidious actions of another person we don't know without having at least heard both sides.
- CJefferson 12y agoI really don't want this to come across as sarcastic or mean, I'm genuinely curious. What you say is true of the retelling of any event at all. But I feel as if this kind of "two sides" post comes up particularly often on posts about women suffering discrimination. I wonder if that is just my own personal biases showing through, or this is a common pattern.