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I saw some people saying that this makes them want to switch towards iphones next. I'm not gonna lie, I considered it for a moment too, like a year ago... But apple is now engaging…

Assuming this is true, all this tells me that this is a great time to apply at Basecamp. Not only they promise a politics-free environment—a huge bonus by itself for me—but they're…

It's pretty worrying how large companies use social media and its excesses (among other things) to divert focus away from their more suspect practices, so it can be pointed at othe…

The problem here lies in the word "sexism" and that, I think, you believe a solution should be to remove its baggage. The replies you get are, I think, because many people, with go…

> There is a nonzero risk in any social interaction that involves giving critical feedback. Which leads me back to GP's point: there are only two choices. I take it that you're say…

> They know when what they’re seeing is sexism vs critical feedback. One can't possibly guarantee that every founder (female or not) knows that, and in fact, TFA implies that many …

> It appeared to me as a low quality response that did not actually have anything to do with my comment. I didn't think it was; it seemed to me a succinct summation of what calling…

> in a way that can't be reasonably construed as sexist "Reasonable" is the key word there. I think that one of the points in TFA is that the misconstruction doesn't need to reason…

> if you’re actually kind, fair and decent to women [...] A tweet against you isn’t an inevitable destruction of your career. I think we're never going to reach an agreement so I'm…

I don't think GP is saying that your comment by itself can be reduced to "damned if you do, damned if you don't". I think the point is that your position might lead to a Morton's f…

> If everyone is giving honest, straightforward feedback, then everyone has a rumor about them and it becomes powerless. But this leads me back to my previous comment: this isn't a…

> try harder? have more tact? [...] have a little more awareness? But isn't the cautious behavior mentioned already an example of this?

> People can spread any rumors they want. And those rumors kill careers, as TFA mentions. > The risk is still there from the first contact to the last. This is correct, and that's …

> we won’t fix it by giving into the fear of being labeled. But we can't fix it by doing otherwise—asking people to stop being "overly" cautious—either. Another comment put it best…

I don't know the solution to this problem, but I do think that turning it into a Morton's fork ("men are sexist regardless of whether they speak or not") is not it. Instead of play…

The problem with this "solution" is that the risk is still too high to bother risking it. Even if the woman is unlikely to assume bad faith (and the likelihood is such, outrage mob…

Agreed, I'm definitely not comfortable with her phrasing in several sections of the article, and it clearly has an impact since some people are saying that this behavior is also ma…