There's a very clear difference between flirting and sexual harassment. That's what you don't seem to understand. What Cuomo did clearly falls under sexual harassment because he basically asked a subordinate if she'd sleep with him, and he questioned her about her sex life and also her experience of sexual assault.
Workplace flirting between colleagues is mutual. When I met my partner at work he didn't ask me to fuck him. We made jokes (non-sexual) and stopped by each other's desks to chat. When he made himself a coffee he asked me if I wanted one and brought it to my desk. We smiled at each other. We bantered and teased each other in a non-sexual way. We started having lunch together and went out for after work drinks with colleagues as we got to know each other (you know, all the things you have to do to kid a woman you’re interested in and then some bitches still have the nerve to refuse to put out). This is what I mean by workplace flirting. If I wasn't interested I would have discouraged him from chatting, turned down his invites to lunch and not extended any of my own, and that would have been it. There was nothing in his behaviour that could have been construed as sexual harassment. He also wasn’t my boss.
And you're still continuing to go on about Cuomo-sexual, as if it means anything in this context.
The issue was the Cuomo grabbed the woman's face before she could even respond. Of course kissing in the workplace should be banned. This was at a wedding but he still over-stepped the mark. Grabbing her face was a power play by a man who loves to assert his dominance.
So yes, women shouldn’t be put in the awkward position of having to rebuff the sexual advances of a boss or landlord and fear for their security. That’s why we have sexual harassment laws. That’s why what both the landlord and Cuomo did was wrong. Workplace flirting is a completely different matter, and can’t ever be banned because it’s subtle. It would be equivalent to banning workplace friensjips. It doesn’t involve asking someone for sex.
If there should be no flirting at work (based on your definition of flirting seems to be the same as sexual harassment) because you as a man don’t feel safe shouldn’t it follow that landlords shouldn’t sexually proposition their tenants because they don’t feel safe?
Or should women never rent or work or leave the house if they want to feel safe, because it’s women’s responsibility to field unwanted sexual advances from those in positions of power over them, because ‘men have needs?’
But men’s sense of security is soooo important, which is why they can’t use sugar daddy websites to find someone who wants the same arrangement, but women should just cop it sweet because ‘men have needs,’ and these needs override everything else.
Amirite?
