LinkedIn

[bobAlike]

Just read this story about a female barrister who's kicked up a fuss about a message she received on LinkedIn. She sent a connection request to a senior partner in another law firm. He commented on her how good her pictured looked amongst other comments. She has complained about this objectifying of women.

Not sure if I can sympathise with her, actually I don't!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34206080/linkedin-sexism-row-charlotte-proudman-says-lawyer-used-site-like-tinder

[AdamM]

I think she has a point to be fair.
If she turned up at a job interview and the interviewer commented on her attractiveness, you'd think that was odd.
This is no different. She's initiated a professional contact, and he's made a personal comment.
She's not suing the guy or attempting any sort of legal action. She's just calling him out on it.

[Graham C]

Seems far too over the top to me.  I don't think she's got a point at all, the letter seems polite and innocent enough, it's not like he banged on about it, simply paid a compliment.

[BorntoBubble]

Linked in is rife with this.

Althought some people do go OTT with there profile pictures and I do think, wow this is a "professional" network not Facebook.

[Woodsey]

Not going to do her job prospects much good probably, a lot of people will be scared to hire her now probably....

[AdamM]

Seems far too over the top to me.  I don't think she's got a point at all, the letter seems polite and innocent enough, it's not like he banged on about it, simply paid a compliment.

He knew the comment was unprofessional. He eluded to it in the comment itself.

[AdamM]

Not going to do her job prospects much good probably, a lot of people will be scared to hire her now probably....

You may be right, but I think that just underlines that there's a cultural problem.

[bobAlike]

Why do we connect on LinkedIn? I know I connect to try and further my career. I'm just whoring myself. She is insinuating that he was trying to get into her knickers by making those comments. By initiating the connection with him, to better herself, is she just doing the same but without the sexual connotation?

[Graham C]

Seems far too over the top to me.  I don't think she's got a point at all, the letter seems polite and innocent enough, it's not like he banged on about it, simply paid a compliment.

He knew the comment was unprofessional. He eluded to it in the comment itself.

So what if it was?  I just don't think it's a big deal. 

If someone posted a message to me that they thought I looked OK in my picture, I'm probably going to smile rather than call the police.

[DungBeetle]

Seems far too over the top to me.  I don't think she's got a point at all, the letter seems polite and innocent enough, it's not like he banged on about it, simply paid a compliment.

He knew the comment was unprofessional. He eluded to it in the comment itself.

It was but she has gone way over the top with her response for starters.  Then she decides to put it on twitter to drum up a social media storm against him.  And to top it off she gives an interview to a newspaper about the incident.

I think he comes off as a bumbling dinosaur.  She comes across as a complete nightmare.

[bobAlike]

Seems far too over the top to me.  I don't think she's got a point at all, the letter seems polite and innocent enough, it's not like he banged on about it, simply paid a compliment.

He knew the comment was unprofessional. He eluded to it in the comment itself.

It was but she has gone way over the top with her response for starters.  Then she decides to put it on twitter to drum up a social media storm against him.  And to top it off she gives an interview to a newspaper about the incident.

I think he comes off as a bumbling dinosaur.  She comes across as a complete nightmare.

She was even on the radio.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0322xwg

[bobAlike]

The more I think about it the more I'm against her. I mean for god sake so what if his intent was to pull her? It's not as if he used a company message board to do it.

It's a bloody compliment! Stupid bitch!

[DungBeetle]

Looking at an article she wrote earlier in the year, it seems the old duffer couldn't have picked a worse target for his clumsy unprofessional compliment.  It was the equivilant of unpinning a hand grenade and sticking it down his own y-fronts!

http://leftfootforward.org/2015/02/why-i-want-feminism-and-not-equality-and-why-they-are-not-the-same-thing/

[bobAlike]

I once worked in a local prison and one day, in the office block, an electrician called a secretary 'love'. Bloody hell, you would have thought he just called her every name under the sun whilst murdering her entire family and mutilating her pet cat. Another stupid bitch!

[Marky147]

LOL