Anything can happen Overnight. You can get hit by blue ice falling from a plane, your car engine could throw a rod through your chest, the natural gas line that goes to your house could explode, you could be falsely convicted for murder... All these are possible but vanishingly rare events, in fact unlike the absurdity listed here theses actually have all happened. And yet we haven't banned airplanes, cars, or gas lines or decided not to try our best to stop murders and convict those guilty if it. As is the likelihood that a stand-up professional will suffer damages from a false accusation of sexual harassment due to a handshake or smile. What isn't vanishingly rare are instances of women suffering significant harm from workplace sexual harassment. What apparently isn't rare and is happening is blatant discrimination against women under the guise of these absolutely ridiculous (but possible!) scenarios that have literally probably never happened and would be exceeding rare if they did. If you're not advocating for the continuing actual very real harm to thousands if not tens or hundreads of thousands of women from sexual harassment because of fear of some fever dream reality where it's possible stand-up professional man has his life ruined by false sexual harassment claims stemming from handshakes and smiles, then what the heck are you advocating?Sig, I think you are missing the point of the arguments against your adamant idea that it CANNOT happen. Just because it has NEVER happened, in your view, does not mean that it CANNOT EVER happen.
Men are afraid that with what all has been going on, there in now an inherent fear that it CAN happen. And no man wishes to be the first test case in these scenarios, because the consequences can be dire if the rulings do not go their way. That's all.
I personally have been envisioning a scenario where a simple smile or handshake could actually make a case for legal proceedings, and based on the momentum of how the world's sensitivity has been going, it will surprise me in the least if it comes to pass. That is what they are trying to convey to you.
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