And people mocked billie Graham for his rule of never being alone with a woman.he was ahead of his time, sadly.

This is nothing - Netflicks is prohibiting people from looking at each other.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/netflix-sexual-harassment-training-rules-me-too-flirting-on-set-a8396431.html

Mike Pence too. That seems to be the trap. Don't do something dangerous and they make fun of you. Do it and then you get sued.

Let's see, modern life has become an Edith Wharton novel. The thing is, Edith was actually mocking the restrictive social mores of her time. So, modern life has essentially become a satire of the Gilded Age.

That pretty much describes me these days. In the office, I keep it copacetic. Minimize work-related conversations, with anyone. There are a grand total of three women in the office that I trust to have a non-work conversation with. Even then, I wait until we go to lunch, because even if the woman you are talking to isn't offended, someone who overhears the conversation can decide that they are offended on the woman's behalf, and it's the same as if the woman herself made the complaint. I know that from experience.

As far as the office thing, I guess that's one advantage of working in a cube farm. And yes, we don't have meetings these days without at least four or five people in the room. Especially classified meetings, where you can't leave the door open.

Socialization outside of work has been reduced to near zero. There are no more after-work events. Management is trying to do pot-luck lunches to improve morale, but really, it's just like being at work, except with food.

Possibly the most poisonous idea w/r/t the existence of personal freedom is the grasping for individual power people attempt.

Whether it is a whine that the President has a personal cell phone, or that somebody ELSE "doesn't understand how they're being oppressed", people treasure their own opinions so much that they support measures that end up crippling THEM.

I get that the average person feels powerless, and doesn't understand what years of calling for "someone else" to solve their problems has done to them... and I don't see an end to this.

It's Reasoning Deficit Disorder.

There are no more after-work events. Management is trying to do pot-luck lunches to improve morale, but really, it's just like being at work, except with food.

And even with these work-food events there's always a bootlicker willing to use it to give him/hersef some corporate notoriety by denouncing it as an affront to productivity.

The solution is simple: no co-location. No offices. All WFH, all comms. over Slack or Zoom. Use only IP phones or relays where all convos. are recorded. No socializing between coworkers outside of work. Absolutely no dating of any kind, no nothing like that or you're fired.

Problem goes away when you separate and keep separate your employees. Minimal interaction only.

If I had my own company that is how it'd be.

Ah, yes. The "sharia-ization" of the workplace stemming from the seemingly endless need to "protect" women from ordinary life, and the consequent need to protect men from career-destroying allegations easily made and hard to disprove.

Nice. Thank you, feminists!

Kissinger joked about the war between the sexes by noting that there was too much fraternizing with the enemy. That joke is becoming less funny very rapidly.

Feminists would have women believe that women can and should ceaselessly hate on men, but that men will never grow to hate women back. Oh, that's right. Feminists make their living battling "misogyny", so they need a never-ending supply of it. Ordinary women (and men) pay the ever-growing price.