One of the divisions of my organisation acquired quite a bit of dark fibre for almost next to nothing during the dotcom meltdown as providers were going out of business .
They even have 4 manholes in a 2 mile radius that's "theirs" - the covers have the old corporate name stamped on them.

Are those fiber links really from 2 independent providers? Where my company most needs redundancy, the fiber is owned & maintaned by a single provider and every one is a reseller.

"slow clap" is not an argument.

Congrats on making, by far, the most reasoned & insightful post in this entire discussion.

Re-read my entire statement carefully and you should quickly spot your own mistake.

Would you care to bet there are not an even greater number of counterexamples?

For both (straight) men & the "girls".

After the backlash he's faced, I'm quite sure he's willing to give that a try. But it would be simpler to just segregate them.

*slow clap*

I've seen quite a few people make fools of themselves on stage. Some of them hold public office, some are highly respected in their fields, some were just born stupid - and a few were female.

None of them have been forced to resign or even apologize.

So someone who hasn't done something or even been accused of doing something should face serious consequences for saying something offhand outside the theater of work?

Actions have consequences and I agree with that but in the pussified world that we now live in, every oversensitive person gets to demand retribution for their offended feelings.
That's as bad as the segregrated workplace you despise.

Consequences to them being human like the rest of us?

A pitcher with an elbow injury, a retiring player and a 12 year old who was probably afraid he was going to be humiliated by a girl?

Out of 100 years of America's sport, that's all you could find?

I guess we should have that sexist movie A League of Their Own deleted and Tom Hanks ostracized for saying "there's no crying in baseball".

I've been told by women I'm close to is that they're very competitive with each other and tend to bicker where men would usually crack jokes.