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In reply to the discussion: I have never been on a date with a man and ended up in a hotel room [View all]spooky3
(34,507 posts)8. In my field, in the 1980s, job interviews at conventions
Were commonly conducted in hotel rooms, by all male interviewers.
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Agree, even if you go with someone to their hotel to "pick up some papers" you don't go
Fla Dem
Feb 2019
#89
Have you ever on a business trip and been in the hotel of a male colleague?
Hassin Bin Sober
Feb 2019
#7
A date has nothing to do with being at a convention and accompanying a colleague to the hotel.
Hassin Bin Sober
Feb 2019
#15
If my work tried to make me share a room with a coworker my response would be go to hell.
47of74
Feb 2019
#90
False equivalency, if Fairfax was a republican he supports an admitted sexual assaulter as leader of
uponit7771
Feb 2019
#117
There is no valid excuse for one person committing an unprovoked attack on another person
avebury
Feb 2019
#118
Nor does it make sense (to me) that anyone would continue having any kind of contact
ooky
Feb 2019
#47
And what difference would it make whether the idea of sex appealed to someone?
onenote
Feb 2019
#137
Would that our own anecdotal experiences be a projection of the world as a whole.
LanternWaste
Feb 2019
#41
Well Mr Fairfax would have retrieved the documents without me being in the room
malaise
Feb 2019
#55
I have walked into the hotel room of a colleague without intending for sex to happen.
moriah
Feb 2019
#51
To me, "no means no". It doesn't matter where it gets said or when it gets said. nt
Jarqui
Feb 2019
#53
I'm sorry, malaise - this sounds like the Mike Tyson defense that was used
bullwinkle428
Feb 2019
#73
I traveled a lot for business more than half of the time with male colleagues
Fresh_Start
Feb 2019
#78
Seems To Me the Most Emphatic Way to Have Said No Would Have Been With Her Teeth!!
DoctorJoJo
Feb 2019
#92
I'd have shot him, I have a CCP valid in Ma.....women in general...don't have that option.
AncientGeezer
Feb 2019
#124
Kudos to Malaise for putting a thought out there and sticking around to discuss, debate. nt
wiggs
Feb 2019
#105
I was very naive back in college and in my early 20's and would often go back to a guy's dorm
smirkymonkey
Feb 2019
#145
Really(what he Hell)....I don't get the OP. Walk through a hotel door and
AncientGeezer
Feb 2019
#135
The problem I have with the OP is that it reflects a mindset that has kept women down for ages
onenote
Feb 2019
#139