Consequences of #MeToo on businesses

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There are however two big problems with the whole situation:

Accusations alone kill careers and businesses just through the media attention and absence from any investigation or evidence
The narrative of the whole debate is that every claim must be believed?—?regardless how ridiculous the claim itself is and that any questioning of this or that people want an investigation is automatically anti female.
These two social justice paradigms have made it impossible to defend anybody against accusations?—?regardless how suspicious or shallow the claims were?—?and it still continues so we can assume this will stay for way longer than just the next week.

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Congratulations #metoo movement, you just made any interaction that could be happening in a normal work relationship also considered to be a possible sexual harassment claim.

Never mind that everybody knows these are ridiculous standards, but as we have all seen in the #metoo outfall, it’s the accepted and proven conclusion!

Now as a business owner myself and somebody who is in voluntary leadership positions I can tell you one thing:
It´s impossible to accomplish anything if you are not willing to make someone “uncomfortable”! Especially if you take on a mentor role!

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Right now the message of #metoo to men is very clear:

As a man, you are automatically a possible rapist
As a man, it is automatically harassment if you make women uncomfortable in any way
And if you say anything against that then you are just some misogynistic a**hole that doesn’t want women to succeed or have their freedom

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What the media doesn’t see are three very important facts:

Most businesses still care more about profit than gender distribution
Most businesses don’t share the blatent disregard for men
Most businesses are still created, maintained and lead by men?—?so you can’t put men out of the equation

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So when I talked with my friends I wasn’t really surprised about the solution they came up with to the new #metoo problems for the workplace?—?I mean I was shocked at first but I also immediately understood the reaction and the sense behind it.

“We will probably not hire women if they have to work together with men” (paraphrased)

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“We have to consider gender segregation at the workplace as a next step so we hire women only for positions where we can make a team out of them and where we have to hire a spot in the male-dominated parts we hire additional men” (paraphrased)

One of my colleagues from a US Tech company gave me even a (for me) more horrific answer when I asked him about this notion:
“we are considering to drop our female staffers in the non-support teams, this way we can eliminate the risk and from the outside, it looks like we just have a 90/10 split which is low but not unreasonable for a tech company”

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Everything was already trending this way, but by equating standard male/female interactions as potential rape or sexual harassment situations, I don't know how anyone wouldn't react in the above manner. Yeah it will never be mentioned publicly because no one is that stupid, but privately? This has essentially made hiring women a liability for any company.

I don't understand the point of all of this. What do the feminists expect to even accomplish here? Do they want to recreate 50s era gender roles so that they can have a reason to exist?