I would expect us to behave better considering we actually
give it a voice and properly label it as negative behavior.
If only this were true. Apparently the greater (male-dominated) culture surrounding technology doesn't dissuade this behavior enough. I'm not condoning the behavior, but we're all animals and
sex is a thing - it gets the best of many of us and we end
up acting like baboons
Despite your disclaimer this still echoes the "boys will be boys" sentiment, one used to justify harm / mistreatment of women by dismissing their actions as part of male nature. This is a lie and needs to change; individuals are responsible for their words, actions, and any harm they cause. I think toolz was saying we should try to fix society,
rather than pretend this is only a problem in tech
Who's pretending the problem is only in tech? Attacking the problem in our industry is part of fixing society as a whole (it's a subproblem).edit: this is a good example of unintentional sexism - when talking about negative sexual behavior, people assume it's a guy. This needs to stop just as much as any other negative behavior. If we setup expectations for guys to behave badly, don't be surprised when they do.
We're primates with a large cerebral cortex. We can think about morality and altruism, and how not to hurt each other, in spite of what our animal minds might be signaling.
Stop making excuses for you or your group's inability to exercise self-control. By hinting that the situation -- making another human uncomfortable -- is somehow natural, you are implicitly condoning the behavior.
There will always be sexual differences, and that's fine and healthy, but we should be aiming to treat women as people first in a professional setting.