Men now avoid women at work - another sign we're being punished for #MeToo.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/aug/29/men-women-workplace-study-harassment-harvard-metoo
By Arwa Mahdawi
The Guardian
August 29, 2019
A new study has found US men appear to be following Mike Pence's lead. Maybe they're angry that #MeToo ever happened.
Nope, Arwa ... they're simply being rational, intelligent realists - unlike you.
It looks like Mike Pence is quite the trendsetter. The US vice-president famously refuses to have dinner alone with any woman who isn't his wife - and now working men across corporate America appear to be following his lead.
It's the smart play. You feminists are trying to set up a Kangaroo Court system where you make up all of the rules, so men are simply, and correctly, deciding that they don't want to play your game at all.
A new study, due to be published in the journal Organizational Dynamics, has found that, following the #MeToo movement, men are significantly more reluctant to interact with their female colleagues. A few highlights from the research include:
* 27% of men avoid one-on-one meetings with female co-workers. Yep, that's right, almost a third of men are terrified to be alone in a room with a woman.
Not terrified of being alone in a room with a woman - no ... being falsely accused by a woman who is bent on terrorizing a man and using the #MeToo movement to steal his hard-earned assets - yes.
* 21% of men said they would be reluctant to hire women for a job that would require close interaction (such as business travel).
* 19% of men would be reluctant to hire an attractive woman.
The data above was collected in early 2019 from workers across a wide range of industries. Researchers had asked the same questions (albeit to different people and with more of a focus on future expectations) in early 2018, just as #MeToo was in full swing, and depressingly, things appear to have got worse. In 2018, for example, 15% of men said they would be more reluctant to hire women for jobs that require close interpersonal interactions with women, compared to 21% in 2019.
"Things appear to have got worse," eh? Well - no duh! ANYONE with at least half-a-brain ... and I guess that leaves you out, Arwa ... knew this was going to happen ... because it is quite simply the logical reaction to the #MeToo power and money grab.
It's not just men who are afraid of women, by the way. Women also appear to be increasingly wary of hiring women. The 2018 survey results found that more than 10% of men and women said they expected to be less willing than before to hire attractive women. (Note: the 2019 results for women are not yet public.) Internalized misogyny really is a bitch.
ROTFLMAO! Aw, Arwa ... you don't like the truth, so you immediately blame someone else for your very own stupidity. See, Arwa ... WOMEN recognize #MeToo for what it is, too! A whole lot of women know that some women will use #MeToo to terrorize and extort men and businesses with false claims, but you don't want to rationally recognize that FACT because it refutes your one-way narrative. No, you'd rather emote, than think, and whine, rather than own up to your own responsibility.
There's been a lot of talk about "grey areas" in #MeToo. All this harassment business is very difficult for men, we're told, because nobody even knows what sexual harassment is any more! Men are afraid to even shake a woman's hand in case she thinks it's harassment! Easier to just avoid contact altogether! What's really interesting about this study, however, is that it thoroughly debunks the argument that men are confused about what constitutes unacceptable behavior. The very first thing researchers did was look at 19 behaviours (emailing sexual jokes to a subordinate, for example) and get people to classify it as harassment or not. Surprise, surprise, both genders basically agreed on what harassment entails.
Wow, Arwa, you truly are intentionally obtuse. Yeah ... just about EVERYONE knows what constitutes unacceptable behavior ... but, that's not the real issue, dearie ... men AND WOMEN are avoiding hiring and interacting with women because of the ridiculously increased opportunity for women to fraudulently claim that perfectly acceptable behavior (or even no behavior at all - completely manufactured out of nothing) was somehow inappropriate. THAT is the real issue that many people are reacting to, you nitwit.
"Most men know what sexual harassment is, and most women know what it is," Leanne Atwater, a professor at the University of Houston and one of the study's authors, told the Harvard Business Review. "The idea that men don't know their behavior is bad and that women are making a mountain out of a molehill is largely untrue. If anything, women are more lenient in defining harassment."
Ah, Leanne ... you just scuttled your credibility with your overreaching, generalizing condemnation of ALL men - "the idea that men don't know their behavior is bad." No, Leanne ... men are not behaving badly ... a few men are behaving badly ... but, you unscientifically and self-servingly wish to lump all men in the bad apple barrel, which invalidates your premise.
So there you go: most men are perfectly aware of the difference between a friendly hug and a creepy hug. They are perfectly aware of what constitutes harassment and what doesn't. Which makes you wonder why so many men are afraid to interact with women at work?
Arwa, Arwa, Arwa ... you're really not too bright, are ya? The vast majority of men are NOT exhibiting bad behavior towards their female colleagues at all ... because, yes - they know what constitutes harassment and they choose NOT to engage in such bad behavior ... but, it is far easier and smarter to simply remove themselves from as many opportunities as possible for them to be falsely accused no matter how properly they conduct themselves.
The answer to that question, perhaps, is that a lot of men aren't so much afraid of being accused of anything as they are they are angry that #MeToo ever happened. They're angry that they've been made to think about their behavior, made to interrogate power dynamics they always took for granted, and they are punishing women for it by refusing to interact with them.
Ah, yes ... here is where you put on your tin-foil hat, Arwa, and neurotically fantasize about the vast "patriarchal conspiracy" against all womankind. Just because men wisely decide not to play your stacked game where women win and men lose no matter how fraudulent the claim (Believe All Women! - snort!), those nasty men are just being mean to you by not submissively bowing down and giving you everything your little black heart desires! BWHA HA HA HA HA HA!!! What a crabby crock. Are you sure you're not having a PMS moment, there, Arwa?
It's worth noting, I think, that the Harvard Business Review article previewing the study's 2019 results is headlined The #MeToo Backlash. You see that phrase a lot and that framing subtly implies that #MeToo went too far, that a backlash is only natural. It's yet another form of victim-blaming; another way to quietly put women back in their place.
No, Arwa ... it simply acknowledges the undeniable truth that #MeToo has gone too far towards male-bashing for male-bashing's sake ... something you misandric feminists love to fantasize about. A backlash, among men AND WOMEN, IS only natural ... because the excesses of #MeToo are quite apparent and ridiculous. But twits like you, Arwa, want to take the #MeToo excesses to even higher heights simply because you hate mankind. For your sake, Arwa, I hope you are a lesbian ... otherwise, you're probably going to find it difficult to get a date, dearie.
Arwa Mahdawi is the founder, president, chief hopes and dreams officer, and chief minority officer at Rent-a-Minority.
http://www.pcma.org/arwa-mahdawi/
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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