Wow, that timing.

I think it would be great for my health if my industry didn't run on alcohol.

Per my comment above, I am more concerned in this case with unconsciously limiting our opportunities for partnerships, deal, etc, to businesses run by other men just because the current norm frowns on having a drink with women.

The point I am trying to make is a little broader: assume that a lot of business and networking does happen over drinks already. In my business it does. There's nothing wrong with coffee, lunch, etc. It's just that if I am going to do a lot of business over drinks in the afternoon or evening, it seems unfair to limit those opportunities to other men.

I don't think the points are very different in breadth. You're saying, Do thing X with women if you're comfortable doing it with men. I'm saying the alternative is, Don't do thing X with men if you're uncomfortable doing it with women.

Normally, I'd say they were equivalent and lean towards the first option as less limiting, but if there are serious potential downsides, the second option seems to have merit.

True, mentoring is necessarily one-on-one.

Fair point. It should be rephrased to mean, a much smaller gap than is commonly understood to exist.

I paraphrased from the event, and then added the data w/o double checking. Shame on me.

I think this underlines the point rather well -- it's SO improbable that sharing a drink is anything but romantic that you guys assume a divorce in 6months?

FWIW, my wife (Monica Guzman) is commenting actively on FB thread about this here. https://www.facebook.com/moniguzman/posts/759642049127?notif...

It's very unclear whether that's a .LT or a .IT - Might be worth looking for a new URL.

We've also had other problems with our lithuanian domain registrar. We do not recommend .LT

What problems did you encounter? I own .lt domain purchased via french registrar without trouble.

1) (note this could be all wrong, but this is what we were told) You can't transfer registrar to outside of Lithuania 2) No Lithuanian registrar offers naked http redirects (ie: wil.lt/x -> www.wil.lt/x). Hence the www. on all of our links...

We are setting up forwarding the naked domain to a static IP that will do the http forwarding

(forgive me if I butchered the dns speak. not my domain haha)

This is hilarious. Not sure about useful, but hilarious - yes.