Has 'me too' made flirting obsolete?

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Does anyone else think this is a shame? Flirting was nice, for all genders, but seems to be banned and not allowed anymore.
Replaced by the delight that is online dating!

Yanbu: It's a shame. I miss a world without flirting where people have to meet by machine (and there is no light harmless joyous flirting, without intent too)
Yabu: I prefer it this way.

Me too wasn’t about banning flirting.
YABU

Both of your votes are unreasonable. Your assumption is wrong. Me too is about consent and sexual domination crossing the line from social interaction. Flirting is part of social communicaton. Hth

YABU to be so blinkered as to believe that the "me too" movement has changed anything in a negative way. People can and do still flirt. Flirting isn't outlawed. It's simply opened more eyes to the fact that sexual assault isn't flirting, and if you can't determine the difference between the two you need to pack in flirting and work on yourself.

If you flirt by sexually harassing people then you’re doing it wrong. HTH

Just because you don't dare flirt with anyone anymore in case you get accused of harassment, doesn't mean the rest of us don't... nothing's been banned or not allowed

Me too was about sexual assaults, nothing to do with flirting. Stupid post.

I didn't get the memo about flirting not being allowed. I like flirting. Don't like sexual harassment. Pretty straightforward actually.

British men have never felt very confident flirting but in the current climate, will flirt even less as they are terrified of causing offence.
I agree, OP, it's a shame. More flirting opportunities in France!

Yeah the me too movement was about banning flirting 🙄
I’m cringing for you.

What?
Why do you think harmless flirting is banned? There’s plenty of flirting without intent too.

Groping, unwanted sexual talk, being coerced into sex by people in power, leering and catcalling, intimidating young girls in school uniforms, sexual harassment is not flirting

People can flirt without sexually assaulting someone.

Actually, I’d argue that flirting is the absence of sexual assault.

No.

YABU

HTH

British men have never felt very confident flirting but in the current climate, will flirt even less as they are terrified of causing offence.

What, all of them? Do you have some kind of empirical data for this?

Flirting and sexual harassment/assault are very different; part of me too is about people not seeing the difference which makes your post quite worrying

Please tell me this is a wind up? Dickwad men who honestly thought groping women was flirting is the only group of people who might consider the me too movement to have limited flirting. But those men are both stupid and offensive and their removal from any dating or sexual pools would be a plus for the entire human race.

It's sad if women feel the same.

There's a huge difference between flirting and sexual harassment! While those who sexually harass claim to not know the difference and plead innocent flirting, they bloody do know!! Metoo is focused on standing up, publicising and saying no to sexual harassment weakly disguised or justified as flirting.

Flirting with someone open to it is fine. No one is suggesting otherwise. Except men who pretend dominating another person's space, touching them repeatedly without consent, using their higher position and forcing their attentions on someone is flirting.

Nah, I just flirt without sexually harassing the other person, sexually assaulting them, raping them or coercing them and it's fine.

Yabu

I wish British men were shy about "flirting". I barely went out (night out) for years because of all the men who equated flirting with blunt "fancy a shag" comments or a quick breast grope or worse.

I have no sympathy with anyone who complains you can't flirt because of Me too. If you can't flirt without making someone feel degraded, pressured into an activity they don't want or assaulted then yes, please don't flirt. Everyone else, as you were.

This handy guide to workplace behaviour for men should be helpful.

It's either the #metoo movement or the fact my personal style icon is Waynetta Slob, but the men have stopped giving me the glad eye for sure.

Sorry that should have said "......sexual assault and harassment, often weakly disguised or justified as flirting,..."

I think the thing is is that men aren't sure where the line is. So don't flirt as freely now just in case

In general I feel that there as been a shift in the dating world since #metoo.

I flirt with men all the time. But the men I like to flirt with are confident in the difference between flirting and sexual assault. Because it’s not fucking complicated really, is it?

Yeah it sucks that you can’t just grab people tits and say it’s flirting anymore.