I hate to tell you this but this can be a 'required behavior' as taught by 'sexual harassment counselors'. Even now I find this hard to write but 9 years ago I was in competition with a female co-worker and got hit with a harassment complaint. I was raised military and taught politeness and courtesy from the beginning.
I was required to attend 3 'counseling sessions' where I learned that I could never do the following; compliment a woman on her appearance, touch a woman even at the shoulder (I was behind her leaning into a doorway and tipped a bit), say anything about beauty even to a male co-worker that could be misconstrued. Finally, to your comment above, I was told to avoid following a woman as it might appear I was looking at her posterior.
I ended up leaving that workplace which did accomplish my rivals goal. Once you have that mark on your record, it is impossible to fight in my opinion.
“I admire the women’s movement,
“Especially when I’m walking behind it!”
- El Rushbo
Oh, I don’t doubt it a moment about what you say. It’s a madness that some stupid liberal woman started that has confused the world. I just don’t understand how opening and holding a door for some one can be construed as sexual harassment. The world is screwy anyway.
Even I know not to do those things. I known with a lot of sexual harassers over the years. Some of them were women. I keep everything on the up and up. I avoid women whenever possible
We went through sexual harassment training after the Clarence Thomas hearings. Then Clinton got elected and sexual harassment became a privilege of power. The number of work affairs skyrocketed under Clinton.