Since the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement, men have to tread lightly than ever before. It seems that nowadays, all it takes to send a guy to HR is looking at a woman the wrong way. Statistics show 25% of the men who ask female colleagues out on date are accused of sexual harassment in the workplace. Yup. Not only do we live in an age of empowered women, we live in an age of litigious women. Because of #MeToo and #TimesUp, any discussion on gender equality effectively becomes about indictment of men and reparation for women.
If the following example sounds all-to-familiar, you can #me2 to my blog. Why not?
Where I used to work I had a female colleague who had a crush on one of the managers. Presumably she had a boob job done to get his attention. The strategy proved to be very effective. Her first day back from surgery, not only did she have his attention, she had half of the men in our department rubbernecking every time she’d pass by.
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On the third day, a nice-looking guy on the floor complimented her on her figure 2.0 with a “You’re looking mightily fine.” She thanked him and moved on. The next day, another guy praised her. She just smiled. Later the resident Trekkie commented how stunning she looked in her dress. She didn’t react. Not then. Not there.
She didn’t come to work the following day. All of us received an email from HR telling us to come in on Saturday for a mandatory seminar on sexual harassment in the workplace. It turned out the attention was too much for her, and that we, the men had to pay for it with a weekend.
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Isn’t the whole purpose of getting breast augmentation to attract men’s attention? Why else did she spend the money and suffer through all the trouble? We were being punished because her makeover achieved its intended purpose? Unless she has “my boobs are solely for xxxx’s enjoyment, the rest of you shut your eyes and scram” tattooed on her forehead, by what measure is this fair?
A man works out and gets ripped, he doesn’t mind getting attention from girls, in fact, he’d savor it. If women truly want to be on an equal footing to men, they shouldn’t cry foul whenever their moods dictate. But I doubt many of them can handle that kind of gender equality, can’t they?
Hello. Gordon Tang here. I am a technical writer who isn’t afraid to voice out his anger on what’s really happening in society today. Connect with me here if you share my views or want to debate me on them.
