You've got a big, responsible job now. I'm going to try and make you feel as uncomfortable in it as I possibly can. Coleman isn't interested in squeezing Tootsie's body but in squeezing her mind. He wants to make her feel she does not belong, or that she exists at his sufferance. These recent years have been kind of hard on the old boys' network.
Some men take the news well, some grudgingly, some angrily.
Some take it angrily who only appear to take it well. There are the ones you often find leering like Red Riding Hood's wolf over the watercooler or reaching out to make a pinch. They don't want sex, they want dominance. They want to set back the office clock to when those desks and nameplates were all theirs. We have seen this type of bigotry before, of course, but it was in the South before the 1960s, at swimming pools and lunch counters, when American blacks were told they were not Americans.