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My wife has discussed this type of comment many times. by wpkirish

We are in our mid-50's. She spent 15 years in the Cook COunty States Attoerneys office surrounded by police officers and alpha males putting bad guys away. It was an old boys network and it was not uncommon to hear in appropriate comments from co-workers, judges or police officers. Even the bailiffs tended to be older men and would refer to her as sweetie all the time. For some context the Judge in Cook County who just reassigned after broadcasting unflattering comments about a female lawyer was a contemporary in the office.

That has changed. She now hears younger women in the office or judiciary complain about comments and she shakes her they would bother to get upset about it. Of course that is part of the problem, women her age were raised to accept things they should not have accepted. That mindset also led to woman getting smaller pay raises because their husband worked while the male co-worker needed to provide for his family. The generation coming of age today was not raised to accept that.

Agree with everyone else on the thread the poster is one of my favorites and is not someone who would intentionally discriminate against a woman based upon her looks. I just think the era one grew up in provdes a different point of view on what is appropriate. How many of us today cringe when we watch a movie from the 80's or 90's and see scenes that are no longer appropriate whether it is Anthony Michael Hall with the prom queen in Sixteen Candles or Louis in Revenge of the Nerds pretending to be someone else to have sex with the cheerleader. Thought it was hysterical at the time. Now it seems really wrong.