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Offline Jacqui Harvey

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Re: Is it offensive to compliment a woman on her looks ?
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2015, 06:24:06 AM »
Linkedin is a business forum, so not the place for sexual compliments, it is for business contacts.  However, this woman has made far too much of this and reading her track record she has a problem with men.
However, she is doing her own business the world of good with all this publicity.

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Re: Is it offensive to compliment a woman on her looks ?
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2015, 08:12:58 AM »
No.

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Re: Is it offensive to compliment a woman on her looks ?
« Reply #12 on: September 11, 2015, 09:05:14 AM »

   The only safe way forward is to cut all forms of communications with the opposite sex.     That's progress for you.

   Perhaps then we will be banned from admiring cars and flowers and  and  and.------------  Sad.





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Re: Is it offensive to compliment a woman on her looks ?
« Reply #13 on: September 11, 2015, 09:41:45 AM »
Completely inappropriate message to send someone connecting on a business forum.

If anyone made it to the end of that tedious article you will have seen that her husband/partner gets messages asking if he wants a job at hedge funds, she get propositions from men asking her out!

Thats the point!


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Re: Is it offensive to compliment a woman on her looks ?
« Reply #14 on: September 11, 2015, 10:27:18 AM »
The barrister who accused a male solicitor of sexism after he described her photograph on a business website as ‘stunning’ has previously told men online they were ‘hot stuff’

It emerged yesterday that the award-winning human rights barrister has commented on pictures of men on Facebook herself to praise their looks.

She also told female friends they looked ‘sexy’ and ‘stunning’ – the same word used by Mr Carter-Silk.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3229951/Ooh-la-la-hot-stuff-s-prim-barrister-centre-sexism-storm-said-men-ogled-web.html

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Re: Is it offensive to compliment a woman on her looks ?
« Reply #15 on: September 11, 2015, 10:53:32 AM »
Everything is offensive to someone these days.

Sorry if that offended someone  ;)

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Re: Is it offensive to compliment a woman on her looks ?
« Reply #16 on: September 11, 2015, 10:54:44 AM »
I thought it wasn't worth saying what with it being so obvious, but anyway, Facebook is just the right sort place for these sort of comments. It's social media, it is personal and not work.

You're missing the point if you don't understand this.

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Re: Is it offensive to compliment a woman on her looks ?
« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2015, 11:47:08 AM »

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Re: Is it offensive to compliment a woman on her looks ?
« Reply #18 on: September 11, 2015, 11:58:41 AM »
Sorry but I'm probably going to annoy a lot . . . but I think as Toky said she should get over herself, take it at face value (no pun intended) but it was a compliment no more. She's milking it for all it's worth -  enjoying her moment of fame.  :(

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Re: Is it offensive to compliment a woman on her looks ?
« Reply #19 on: September 11, 2015, 12:04:27 PM »
Commentators are right, she is up her own 'arris, and perhaps motivated to advance herself,  but the 'innocent' remark or compliment is often the opening gambit for the predatory office sex pest.




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