On Valentine’s Day, Do Owe We Mike Pence an Apology?

Wow, how things change.  A little less than a year ago, Mike Pence was criticized, and mocked by some, for having a personal policy, while in Congress, of not dining with women alone (or going to events where alcohol was served unless his wife went, too).  People, most of whom already didn’t like Vice President Pence, were aghast.  It’s discrimination, they said.  It’s unfair to women; it’s another example of the glass ceiling.

And we now read about Google and Facebook having company policies that employees can only ask out co-workers once.  If they are turned down, they can’t ask again.¹  Doug Smith, a lawyer at Jackson Lewis in Pittsburgh, recommends that companies have strict rules against managers dating anyone further down in the company.  And he says companies are doing it.

In an article in The Wall Street Journal last December, David Steinberg, head of Zeta Global, said that, in selfies with women, he no longer puts his arm around them.  He said he doesn’t want them to feel uncomfortable.  While he claims it’s not the reason, it will also increase the chances he won’t get accused of something by somebody

So, given where we are today, how about that apology for Mike Pence?
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¹ In the Chicago Tribune, Heather Wilhelm asks, re these kinds of dating rules:

“What if you date people only after they’ve proved their persistence by standing outside your window passionately lofting an old-school boom box playing “In Your Eyes” like actor John Cusack did in ‘Say Anything’?  (It is 2018, so do not try this in real life.  You will probably get arrested.)”

If that would get you arrested, Benjamin Braddock would get convicted.