On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:31:42 -0500 (EST), justan wrote:

Wrote in message:
Will a man come forward and say a powerful woman said or did something
that "made him feel uncomfortable".
That seems to be the bar now.
As a guy who spent the best part of the first year of IBM working in
the female world of the keypunch room, I can say they do have a way of
making you feel uncomfortable and that is usually intentional.
I didn't take it seriously and when they figured out they were not
getting a rise out of me it got a lot better but I wasn't a snow flake
either.


No rise? Viagra might help.

I doubt that was the "rise" they were looking for. They were just
trying to embarrass the new guy saying the most outrageous stuff you
can imagine.
If I used the standards we are using now, I could have a case that
they were creating a hostile work environment. Fortunately I had a
good sense of humor about it. It helped a lot that I could actually
fix keypunches.