[omegaham]

> It gets to a point where being friendly to women is so strenuous that it becomes hostile to men.

This is a good point. If you get to the point where people are scared of expressing their thoughts for fear of offending someone who took them the wrong way, you have a serious problem. Most people are not going to put in the effort; they're just going to keep their mouths closed and dodge the confrontation entirely. This leads to bad ideas winning.

Sure, it's one thing about posting a job description. But if you're going to apply that mindset to your job description, you're probably going to apply it to everything from water cooler conversation to official meetings to emails.

And yes, it's important that people are respectful and make your environment a great place to work. But it's a really bad idea to go over the top in welcoming 10% of your workforce and alienating the other 90%.