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It would be inappropriate whoever said it. Her reaction would be as irrelevant as your question. This is about defining what's appropriate conduct in a professional environment, not trying to matchmake randoms on the internet.

The whole point of this debate is the context in which the comments were made. You understand that's literally all there is to this, right? So to try and throw in similar comments made in completely different contexts is completely meaningless. What we say to each other in a personal environment...

I think you should have used "inconsequential". You've conflated two completely unrelated facts to try and give "balance" to the story. Her Facebook comments are irrelevant. You may as well say that it would be an "embarrassing twist" to find out that someone who complains about being groped...

If it was someone I knew I would be mortified. I'm not baying for blood here, but I think she's within her rights to ask for a public apology if she thinks it's appropriate. Clearly she's hoping to draw attention to an issue that she thinks is important, but I don't think she's going overboard...

Out of interest, why are you framing this woman's Facebook posts as an "embarrassing twist"?

24 pages in, and you've almost twigged that this is all about context. Nearly there, mate - here's my reminder again: I honestly don't get why people are suddenly so concerned about this guy's career, or why it's so crazy to want a public apology. Are people really more offended by that than...

Not sure why it's so out of line to call him a sexist. I thought we'd all agreed he was acting in a sexist way by now. As for "spreading it all over the UK" - you realise you can't just call up and demand to be interviewed, right? The reason it's spread so far is because it's struck a chord...

The fact that you're treating this as a story about whether it's ever ok to pay someone a compliment is bizarre to say the least.

Just to give an extra-simple recap for those who are still getting upset about this: Complimenting a friend's appearance in a casual/social environment - probably fine Complimenting a stranger's appearance in a formal/professional environment - generally not a good idea But of course...

Hardly ever. What year was that Diet Coke campaign everyone likes to bring up in this argument? 1997?

Why should she have to "deal with it"? Many women feel it represents a wider problem where they are consistently objectified and harassed when they're just trying to do their job, something which makes networking more difficult than it already is. This idea that it's the woman's problem for...

So your opinion, based on (presumably) no experience of this ever happening to you, is that you should just get over it. Her opinion, shared by countless other women for whom this is a regular occurrence, is that it's a nuisance at best, degrading at worst. Maybe I'm being too generous, or maybe...

While I'm sure she's pleased to have exposed idiots who still make excuses for this kind of stuff, I somehow think she'd be happier if it never happened in the first place. But nevermind, you carry on trying to undermine her in the meantime.

If some lawyer (male or female) on LinkedIn decided to show off their torso/sixpack in their profile picture then there might be a better argument for justifying comments on their appearance. As I said, I doubt a male lawyer has ever deliberately done that on LinkedIn, let alone received...

Sadly we'll never know, because this has literally never happened. Grow up.

I believe that video is showing people refusing food and water after the train for which they'd bought tickets for had been prevented from leaving the station multiple times. They were unhappy that they'd been allowed to spend money on tickets that the Hungarian government had no intention of...

Surely the question is 'How long will it take for you to run out of rhetorical questions to conveniently justify your inaction'? I would list them all here but I literally don't have time to find them all. Like I said before, you're taking the same approach to charity as the NOPM crowd do to...

So you're taking a NOPM stance against humanitarian aid? How's it going?

The ban on drinking in the stands isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so no use complaining about that. Went down to the concourse as soon as the whistle went for HT and the queues we're enormous. Gave up on waiting not long after the second half had started. Pointless blaming it on there...

Which of the following cliches do we think we'll abandon first: "It's only pre-season" "In [manager] we trust" "He needs more match fitness before he really gets going" "[Team] were in the relegation zone at Christmas and it didn't stop them getting promoted" "The new signings...