Has 'me too' made flirting obsolete?

[Maskedsingeroctopus]

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.

@Cordylina

OP
YA talking shite

It sucks you can no longer grab ass and tits and call it flirting.

You sound exact like the MRAs on Twitter OP.

Do you also think feminists are frigid and have ruined women?

Or that most rapes are false accusations?

Or that women need to be less uptight?

Or do you believe that 1 in 5 women have experienced sexual assault?

That 510,000 women and girls were assaulted last year?

That women and girls are 5 times more likely than men and boys to be assaulted?

And that 80% of assaults go unreported....

Massive difference between flirting and sexual harassment/ assault. If it happened to you then you would understand the difference very very clearly. If you don't understand the difference then I really worry about what kind of a person you are. YABU in so many ways. Both of your "yabu" and your "yanbu" are patronising and unreasonable and you should probably ask for this post to be taken down as it's just horrible and rude.

Yikes.

I'm not sure that you know what flirting is.

I look ten years older than my age, have a very stubborn moustache & a serious case of resting bitch face. I'm fairly confident that these are the reasons nobody flirts with me and not because of #metoo - although it would be easier to blame that than my neglected fading looks. When I go on staff nights out none of the younger women (with no tache & a friendly smile) seem to have a problem getting flirted with.

If flirting’s been banned can someone tell my two colleagues please, at least then I won’t be stuck in the middle of a 90s sitcom anymore!

www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/19/girls-struggle-to-find-safe-place-in-uk-plan-international-report

Timely article in The Guardian today.

If you flirt with people by sexually harassing them then you are an idiot if the highest order.

I still flirt and am flirted with. If some men are unable to find the line between flirting and sexual harassment and so have stopped flirting as a result, then that can only be a good thing, they're not the type of men I would flirt with to begin with.

I'd rather live in a flirt free world if it meant less sexual harassment. But we don't live in a flirt free world do we.

C’est vous, Catherine? Bienvenue a Mumsnet!

www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/09/catherine-deneuve-men-should-be-free-hit-on-women-harvey-weinstein-scandal

Good one op

OP, are you a man?

If you are unclear about the difference between flirting and sexual harassment, then your not flirting is a welcome act.

I think anyone who struggles to understand the difference between flirting and sexual harassment, probably shouldn't be doing any flirting.

Op you're an idiot

Piers, is that you? If you can't tell the difference between flirting and rape YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

I am not minimising the terrible thing that is rape. Way to jump to extremes!

I am simply noting that simple flirting has been outlawed. Men and women are hardly allowed to make any flirtatious contact in real life and coincidentally this started at the same time.
Flirting was nice. But good luck with your capitalist world where you have to pay monthly to allow a machine to meet you with other humans.
I am not a man.

Oh God.

No.

I am simply noting that simple flirting has been outlawed

Erm, no it hasn't.

Are you Alan Partridge OP.

I bet you use the words 'snowflake' and 'pc brigade'

Hint - If nobody flirts with you, it's not because of #metoo.

Pray tell, when was it outlawed? I'm still flirting. Will I be arrested?

Flirting isn't sexual harassment.

As I said. You make exactly the same “arguments” as the MRAs.

Haha, maybe people have stopped flirting with you because you're a bit of a basket case OP. I highly doubt it has anything to do with the #metoo campaign.

I am not minimising the terrible thing that is rape. Way to jump to extremes!

OP, that is what the #metoo campaign was about. You're the one who brought it up. If you think that flirting has anything to do with #metoo, then you are minimising rape.