Hey coach Anthony I understand that you didn’t mean to offend anyone in anyway possible, but using inclusive language is very important. Instead of coming at the situation talking about how boring you thought she was going to be, you should have just avoided the gender part of the meeting. When you go about a conversation mentioning a gender, automatically, in a normal person’s mind, they start creating all kinds of different ideas in their head on how this meeting went wrong. When you are dealing with class forums, you have to make sure to re read your post before you actually post it and be sensitive to everyone in every way possible. One of the things you can change, when talking in a forum page for classroom, is by not using the phrase, “good old boys”. That phrase is immediately looked upon by females in a bad way, instead you can refer to them as co-workers. If you say co-workers, you will not be offending anyone in any way, because it is not picking a certain gender. Another thing i would of changed is that you mentioned you would “recommend that any man who wants to advance in the business world should seriously consider brushing up on his etiquette”. Just by the word “man”, is automatically putting a gender role in the sentence and it can be looked upon in a wrong way. Lastly, another way you put a gender role on this situation is by saying you “used some of her tips at the company picnic later that month that all the managers and their wives attended”. You made it seem as there are no females attending this meeting with their husbands, therefore secluding the gender role once again. In the future when communicating on the class forums, you should definitely re read everything carefully before posting it. Double checking your work can never cause any harm to you, besides taking up a little more time. Im not saying these are all corrections that are going to