Sneaky Ways Men Hit On You, While Pretending They’re Not
- By
Julia Austin
Offering career advice
On the other end of things are men who are in a position to influence or guide a woman’s career, and who use that power to gain sexual favor. I remember when I was a young writer, a male contact had a friend who’d started a new magazine and was looking for freelancers for a cover story. He agreed to show her some of my work and my resume, but the entire time these back-and-forth emails and calls went out – him relaying what the publisher said about my work – the man would flirt with me. He wouldn’t blatantly say something sexual, but he was dancing right at the line without crossing it. And I felt I couldn’t do anything about it because he was brokering this opportunity for me.
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