I view power differentials, workplace dating, etc., as something that’s risky/delicate, but it can be fine if done carefully. Even if something goes poorly in one instance, it doesn’t necessarily mean that a person did something immoral.
However, when there’s a pattern of several people complaining, that’s indicative of some kind of problem.
It means likely that either a person was particularly likely to make people really uncomfortable with their advances when they made them, or that the person made a ton of advances in professional contexts (and a small portion of them left people unusually uncomfortable). I think both of these would be bad, for different reasons.
(Why is bad to make tons of careful advances? I feel like it’s bad because it reflects not taking seriously the view that one’s prior should be against it being a good idea, especially if your professional context is about having impact rather than a means for getting romance or sex.)
I view power differentials, workplace dating, etc., as something that’s risky/delicate, but it can be fine if done carefully. Even if something goes poorly in one instance, it doesn’t necessarily mean that a person did something immoral.
However, when there’s a pattern of several people complaining, that’s indicative of some kind of problem.
It means likely that either a person was particularly likely to make people really uncomfortable with their advances when they made them, or that the person made a ton of advances in professional contexts (and a small portion of them left people unusually uncomfortable). I think both of these would be bad, for different reasons.
(Why is bad to make tons of careful advances? I feel like it’s bad because it reflects not taking seriously the view that one’s prior should be against it being a good idea, especially if your professional context is about having impact rather than a means for getting romance or sex.)