Parent is making a comment that male behavior is socially mediated in terms of which behaviors are socially acceptable and which ones aren't. This is because we're talking about changing the company culture. Company culture is partially a set of context-specific social norms and values.
No one is talking about moderating the cognitive experience of males which is where this confusion originates. Everyone else is talking about male behavior. The assumption I'm specifically tackling is the assumption that, "male cognition overrides social norms," which is patently false.
I guess OPs company just didn't want their employees to have to act like they they arent attracted to someone 2000 hours a year when they are.
Similar to how most tech company employees have trouble acting decent to a coworker wearing a trump hat at work. Ideally we could all be neutral cyborgs at work, but we just aren't.
Weird - do you have trouble walking down the street when an attractive woman is present. Do you have to talk to her? Howl like a wolf? Bark like a dog? I don't understand what exactly happens when an attractive woman is present that you suddenly cannot behave normally?
I behave perfectly normally. But this isn't a thread about me, it's about the employees at OPs company. The management team must have known that with the amount of men they have hired, atleast a few might be prone to getting weak for women. So they took action.
So if you can behave perfectly normally in the streets - why can't you behave perfectly normally in the office? You are the one saying that it's actually normal that men react this way, but I don't think so. My experiences don't match that at all. I work in an office with women, they don't get harassed and we've never not hired someone because they are or aren't attractive. So you can keep pointing to vague truisms that have nothing to do with anything (I don't steal but I know thieves exist). Yeah, I don't steal either, and when someone does, I call the cops. I don't live my life in fear of people stealing. I don't treat entire categories of people (you here perform the incredibly ridiculous task of equating the entire gender of women to 'thieves' because apparently all women think the same according to you...) based upon that notion, yet you do.
I'm tired of all your confused points.
Nowhere did I say I have trouble at work but not on the street.
Nowhere did anyone say anything about women in general not working at OPs company. It was clear this was an attractive woman by these guys standards, not some average woman.
No one is talking about moderating the cognitive experience of males which is where this confusion originates. Everyone else is talking about male behavior. The assumption I'm specifically tackling is the assumption that, "male cognition overrides social norms," which is patently false.