What’s your best pickup line?
Respond super excited, like when you meet someone who shares the same niche hobby than you: “I like girls too! So tell me, what have you found to be the best technic to eat pussy?”
“Hi, Lesbian, I’m Brian.”
And I’m married, so I’m kind of asexual (at work), so we’re ought to be friends!
It’s probably a way for her not to be flirted with. To protect herself. So I’d say something reassuring like that.
“Good for you, but what does that have to do with the job?”
And by job I mean my penis.
“Hi, Lesbian, I’m anon.”
It’s time for anon to drop the classic dad joke
“I, too, am a connoisseur of fine pussy.”
A thespian you say? Why, I was in a production of Hamlet myself!
Thespians? Aren’t those illegal in 7 states?
E tu, brute?
“cool, let’s smash!”
“Neat.”
I respond by hoping I’m a girl in this scenario. Anon forgot to specify.
Hi Lesbian, I’m Anon.
Shrug is the only correct response at work. Or maybe “that’s nice” to be more polite.
Is that polite though? I get that it isn’t explicitly rude but I pretty much only use that phrase as short hand for “why are you talking about this you fucking weirdo?” I think it’s subtly rude at best.
Most politeness is about rephrasing rudeness in a subtle way. What OP’s fictional coworker did in this fictional story is explicitly rude as it assumes the worst from meeting a new person, the most appropriate response would be something that is subtly, but noticeably, rude.
If a team lead, sight unseen, just tells you their sexual preference without any context or follow-up then yeah that’s fucking weird and they’re a weirdo.