>> This isn't sexism. It's flirting. Maybe the bloke was a bit crass, but it's still
>> just flirting. It's no different to a Diet Coke ad.
It's not an ad scenario or a pub. It's a website established for professional networking. That's how it should be used. However good the profile pic was do you think he'd have said the same to Charles Proudman?
Thirty years ago a promotion board gave me a question on sexist behaviour in the workplace. I was told later that the key words in my answer were 'inappropriate' and 'unreciprocated'. Not a difficult concept is it? But a quarter century on people still spout the same excuses as in 1984.
>> Sexism is denying someone an opportunity based on their gender.
No. That's direct discrimination. Sexism is much more prevalent and almost as destructive.
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