We've all thought sexually harassing things – that a woman with huge boobs that jiggle when she walks by wearing that low cut dress showing enough cleavage that only her nipples are hidden (and you can imagine those with little help from anything), or that guy who wears the shirts and pants that might as well be painted on. You see them and think "great tits" and "nice ass." Sometimes we feel the need to pay these people compliments. "Hey, you look nice today."
While we may be thinking, "Hey, I'd like fuck you raw," we say it in a nice, non-offensive way (or perhaps they simply look pleasant and professional). This has been coming to a screeching halt over the past couple of decades. If we tell someone they look nice, then it obviously means that we want to bone them or that we assume they want to be boned. Sure, it's not always true, but there is nothing wrong with taking notice of the work someone has put into their own image.
Now, let's look at this from the opposite angle. What if we made comments on the things wrong with people? Would they feel as harassed? I'm sure that a woman would like hearing, "That dress looks like a potato sack from the famine times," or "You look like something my cat brought to my door the other night." Is this also sexual harassment, or merely gauche, and what about if these statements were true?
Here are some proposed non-harrassing workplace compliments to help everyone avoid sexual harassment.
- You don't look like barf today.
- That dress makes it easy for you to be distinguished from the mailbag.
- I'll wager you spent more than two minutes getting ready for work – and it shows!
- Your voice does not send me shrieking from the room clutching my ears in pain.
- That fragrance you are wearing is ample proof that you are not prematurely dead.
- Your choice of work attire lends proof to the fact that you are not overweight.
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