I worked at a workplace where my boss left around this moment, and the culture of the workplace changed. But it left so many of my colleagues who were men, white men, who I really respected and who really, to me, it was obvious, respected women, confused about how to act. Like, I had one colleague who was like, I always take the interns out for drinks. Every year I take the interns out for drinks, but I can’t take the interns out for drinks this year because it’ll look like I’m trying to get interns drunk, and I can’t get interns drunk. And I could just see that he was really trying to figure it out, and I had real empathy for that because we were defining new rules, and the new rules left very little room for nuance. What I would say is in terms of the white men at that time especially, I just as a cis het man, I just feel like it’s, and I’m not saying you, but I just I’m not interested in infantilizing these people. You can run a Fortune 500 company, but you can’t understand how to not do something, how to do something creative to take interns out who are women? I feel like a lot of white men suddenly became childlike during that time. You took over the entire world. You can’t understand how to navigate during the #MeToo — movement? I just —— — Right.
