Why is my male coworker very visibly protective of me?

[Solstraale]

He has 'defended' me when my boss has asked something and when coworkes tried to make fun of me. He way also clearly making it visible that he was watching when the office 'creep' should show me something on the computer. Does this mean anything?

[DishLady]

So I had a male coworker who did this sort of thing for a while and while I knew we valued each other very much professionally, I hadn't realized that there were some feelings there on his side. (If he has feelings for you and you don't have feelings for him, it's important to make that clear without being overtly blunt due to workplace policies and politics. In my case, I let the fellow down gently by adjusting my tone rather than overtly telling him "This won't happen." Because he's a smart guy and caught on right away.)

Some guys do this WITHOUT having feelings for the woman and are just protective in that brotherly/fatherly sense because they know that some guys are creeps and are trying to just "defend your honor."

[Nice222]

Well one I believe in defending friends that I work with. And also many males are raised to believe in defending females. It may be just a natural thing too.

[Surely]

He probably likes you. Either as a friend or coworker that he doesn’t like people putting you down or doing rude and mean things to.

[Surely]

@Solstraale. Thank you for the MHO!

[loveslongnails]

He wants you to think of him as your protector, hero, savior so you'll throw yourself at him.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know, you’re not that attractive to the extent that he gets the urge to protect you.

[Finchie40]

Cuz he wants to bend you over

[elaphe]

Maybe he thinks of you as a little sister.