What's Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander

[His statement was not sexual in nature, it was] intended to convey that the Duchess [of Sussex] possessed charm and beauty and was a suitable match for her fiancee, who has a reputation of possessing charm and handsome looks." 
"No reasonable woman would consider his remark to be a sexual comment about the Duchess."
"[He] felt this over-policing of his innocently intended remark, and its being twisted into an accusation of sexual harassment, was unduly punitive and said so."
"[Two female colleagues] had been looking at a picture of a man, specifically, Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, and stated that he is 'hot' intended as a reference to Mr. Trudeau's sex appeal. [His employer] took no action on this complaint, undertook no investigation and imposed no discipline on the female employee."
"Defendants enforced their policies regarding sexual harassment in a manner that was discriminatory, specifically that they dismissed a male employee with no investigation within two days but took no action when placed on notice of a similar remark by female employees in the presence of witnesses."
Complaint, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

Meghan Markle and Justin Trudeau.  Chris Jackson/Getty Images; Chris Young/The Canadian Press

Yet another tediously tiresome and reputation-destructive, employment-ending fallout of the #MeToo movement that has long outlived its temporary usefulness in calling to account genuine instances where men at all levels of society have been brought to task over their treatment of women, from violent rapes to social harassment to careless insults, for too long tolerated by society and by women too subconsciously bludgeoned into acceptance of the 'inevitability' of fallout from accusations.

There is little doubt that many men, empowered by a general laxity in social mores and acceptable and sensitive respect for their opposite gender casually humiliated women they were in contact with as a male entitlement. They are now more conscious of what constitutes acceptable manners and have been newly acquainted with that quaint old notion of peer- and gender-respect. As for the authentic criminal violators of the social compact of violence against women they too are paying their belated dues.

Feminists, intoxicated with the heady brew of finally achieving a good measure of notice and overdue attention to the fact that being male is no entitlement to belittling females, and seeing powerful men brought to the level of social and legal condemnation they finally deserve have dug in their heels to pursue any possible perceived albeit innocent-of-intent assaults against female dignity. Off-colour jokes no longer permitted, no big loss. Courtly gestures or 'implied' inferiority, or simple assertions of admiration have now been placed squarely in the box of the forbidden.

General society has become so cowed by the vehemence with which women on social media 'gang up' to decry male attitudes and behaviour that sensible women tolerate it as too long in coming but with a growing look askance the madness, sensible men head for the hills, no longer willing to risk their reputations by having anything to do with women. Leading women professionals to decry the distance their male counterparts are now leaving between themselves and young women whose careers could be advanced through mentorship....
Former PBS journalist Hugh Heckman is suing the news station for wrongful termination after he was fired for calling Meghan Markle, 'not bad' 

Hugh Heckman, 72, a former editor for PBS NewsHour was working on a story relating to Britain's Prince Harry and then-fiancee Meghan Markle on November 25, 2017. He was overheard to have remarked to a male colleague, both studying a photograph of the two now-royals, the expression "not bad". A woman sitting six metres off to whom the photograph was unseen, commented that his comment was in contravention of company sexual-harassment-in-the-workplace training. "Haven't you learned?", chastized another. 

They then went on to lodge a formal complaint to CBS authorities about his sexist behaviour. Two days later he was fired. Mr. Heckman obtained the services of a lawyer. And with the help of his lawyer has set out to change PBS practices and training to "provide equal employment opportunities for employees based on sex", along with an unspecified compensation for lost earnings, for humiliation, and for loss of professional reputation.

"There are many serious cases of sexual harassment going on, as we know from the #MeToo  movement, and then we have this one."

"That makes people question the seriousness of these issues."
Jillian T. Weiss, lawyer for Mr. Heckman