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Have you made sexual innuendos in the work place?

128 replies

LucieChardon · 01/12/2024 11:24

So the BBC reported that GregG said: "In over 20 years of television, can you imagine how many women, female contestants on MasterChef, have made sexual remarks or sexual innuendo - can you imagine?"

Implying that many women also make sexual remarks or innuendos, in a professional environment. (His whole statement is doubling down that he's an obscene misogynist.)

I'm curious to know how true this is. I mean, with my own DH, joking with close friends, I might make a pun or a joke. Never with acquaintances, never with colleagues. What about you?

I find it hard to believe that there are many women who behave very differently from me. I think women are socialised to be generally less sexually aggressive.

YABU = I do make sexual remarks in the work place
YANBU = I do not make sexual remarks in the work place

OP posts:
Fairyvocals · 14/07/2025 17:00

Every hour, on the hour. But never aimed at specific people.

tuvamoodyson · 14/07/2025 17:14

ginasevern · 01/12/2024 15:41

I've worked since I was 17 (67 now) in a variety of places. From swanky offices to workshops on industrial estates and pulling pints in pubs. The most prolific offenders of sexual innuendo are men by a trillion miles. I would say probably 50% of the men I've worked with over the years are only just a hair's breath away from saying something filthy, either because they think they're god's gift or just deliberately to make women feel uncomfortable. Yes, I've known filthy mouthed women but they are very rare and their comments are usually confined to a group of other like minded women - it's a different dynamic.

Edited

But according to other threads, filthy mouthed women aren’t really rare! I’ve met some awful women in my time…mouth like sewers!

ginasevern · 14/07/2025 18:40

tuvamoodyson · 14/07/2025 17:14

But according to other threads, filthy mouthed women aren’t really rare! I’ve met some awful women in my time…mouth like sewers!

Oh yes absolutely, so have I. But what I'm trying to say is that men use sexual innuendo/references to make women uncomfortable and they do it with ease across all types of sectors - from politicians to top surgeons. Rightly or wrongly women with "mouths like sewers" would be highly unlikely to be employed in most of the stockbroking offices I've worked in for example and I suspect that applies to a whole host of other working environments.

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