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The Rock Test: A Hack for Men Who Don’t Want to Be Accused of Sexual Harassment

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Question: is this meant to be useful advice, or is this meant to be a criticism of people? Or both??

I thought it was satire.

I'm pretty sure it's a criticism of people. That said, if it is helpful advice to some people, maybe they should take it?

Well, yes, if it is good advice for someone, then that they should take it would follow, but that seems to basically be a tautology, and not really say anything.

From the headline, I thought maybe it might be a "here is an explicit description of the social norms that most people pick up on intuitively, and which should be sufficient for the situation in question, in case you are uncertain whether or not there is some important norm that you failed to pick up on", but when I started reading the first couple paragraphs, the impression that I got was that it was basically saying "most men (but not The Rock) are sexist and if they act like they are having trouble navigating socially, they are lying because they are evil.".

I think maybe a different headline that more clearly reflected the content of the article might be better.

I suspect it is intended as helpful, but gets kind of ruined by the obvious contempt and lack of any respect or compassion at all that she so clearly has for all men.

The very premise of this article seems to be that accusation == fact.

Not every accusation is factual.

As it is written, it claims to target men worried about being accused. It should be titled "The Rock Test: A Hack for Men Who Don’t Want to Sexually Harass Someone" since it really targets (as written) men who would harrass.

the set of men afraid of being accused also contains men that will never make women feel unsafe, let alone actually get accused or harass women.

correct. that is precisely my point. and they need no behaviour adjustments - they already do no harassment. hence this article is wrongly targeting them with its title

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