Men's Group

A couple things are worth noting, is that the ONLY reason it came up on DU again was due to a particularly noxious, to my mind, out of the blue instance of anti-Atheist slamming, one perpetuating an old saw about Atheists being inherently less moral, implying specifically that Atheist men (hence, the men's group) are somehow less contained in our evil male-y-male ways than our religiously believing brethren.

So, that's that.

I think it's important to reiterate that Ms. Watson was certainly entitled to her opinion of the incident, and as men it does behoove us to do whatever we can to make everyone around us feel as safe and comfortable as possible; that's just basic human decency. I do NOT believe that asking a woman (or a man) out for coffee, in and of itself, constitutes some sort of giant breach of personal boundaries. But yeah, it's a good idea to try to be subtle and considerate and above all perceptive to the signals that, say, someone you may feel an interest in, may be sending out. In such a situation, you want the interest to be mutual, duh.

Obviously this guy didn't do a good job of that, at least judging by the external reports.