As a guy, I have never had a job where I didn’t witness sexual harassment in one from or another.
Just yesterday a coworker mentioned we had a new hire starting and was wondering if they were going to be hot or not. Poor girl hasn’t even had her first day and the idiots are already lining up to hit on her, even without knowing ANYTHING except she is female.
And I’m married, so I’m kind of asexual (at work), so we’re ought to be friends!
It’s probably a way for her not to be flirted with. To protect herself. So I’d say something reassuring like that.
Really fucking arrogant/egocentric to assume every guy out there is trying to flirt with you, no?
Like, I’m gay, if someone said that to me though I’d be tempted to report them to HR for a hostile workplace interaction.
They’re literally passing judgement on you by appearance (what else was disclosed in that scenario? literally nothing), and that’s not ok.
If you’re a woman and have to be near an unknown man, it’s safe to assume the worst. It’s a sane reaction.
They’re your coworker for Christ’s sake. Why assume the worst?
As a guy, I have never had a job where I didn’t witness sexual harassment in one from or another.
Just yesterday a coworker mentioned we had a new hire starting and was wondering if they were going to be hot or not. Poor girl hasn’t even had her first day and the idiots are already lining up to hit on her, even without knowing ANYTHING except she is female.
It’s pretty safe to assume the worst.
It is not “pretty safe to assume the worst”, it’s an HR nightmare waiting to happen. Stop giving bad advice.
Because male coworkers harassing female coworkers is common.
But in this case the harassment is from the female coworker. And you seem totally fine with that. Gotta love double standards.