# Men who avoid women at work because of fear of alleged reports of sexual harassment

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**Created:** [September 1, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-who-avoid-women-at-work-because-of-fear-of-alleged-reports-of-sexual-harassment/949906 "2021-09-01T15:02:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-who-avoid-women-at-work-because-of-fear-of-alleged-reports-of-sexual-harassment/949906/52 "2021-09-01T20:29:10Z")

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> [@snowthx](#):
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> As for touching, IMHO the only permissible location for a touch is a mutual hand-shake.

I don’t know. There was a poster on this board years ago who said something like that man offering to shake a woman’s hand was indicative he wanted to rape her or something to that effect. Does anyone else remember this?

EDIT: I believe it was the now banned ZPG\_Zealot .

SECOND EDIT: A thread on it here. [https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zpg-zealot-handshake-thread-party-extravaganza/758713](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zpg-zealot-handshake-thread-party-extravaganza/758713)

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