OH HAI SEXISM

Loading this article was a colossal fail on my android. All I could see was the title, a bunch of floating random boxes, and the facebook comments at the bottom.

Re: OH HAI SEXISM

#5

Post by asto » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 5:37 PM UTC

I felt they're all behaving rather immaturely.

Re: OH HAI SEXISM

#6

Post by JS_startup » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 5:37 PM UTC

Oh hey, a stupid slapfight on Twitter.

Frankly, Shanley was really offensive in her approach and Christian's responses seem pretty measured. Not sure what the big deal is.

Re: OH HAI SEXISM

#7

Post by asto » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 5:37 PM UTC

mayneack wrote: post #4

Loading this article was a colossal fail on my android. All I could see was the title, a bunch of floating random boxes, and the facebook comments at the bottom.

Same problem on my blackberry.

Re: OH HAI SEXISM

#8

Post by rabble » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 5:39 PM UTC

So the video in question got pulled offline, so now none of us who missed it can tell if it was sexist or not. Kind of ironic.

Re: OH HAI SEXISM

#9

Post by drivebyacct2 » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 5:41 PM UTC

JS_startup wrote: post #6

Oh hey, a stupid slapfight on Twitter. Frankly, Shanley was really offensive in her approach and Christian's responses seem pretty measured. Not sure what the big deal is.

Christian's responses are measured, but they're a long way from being the correct response.

The first big paragraph in the article is right. Christian had a perfect opportunity to turn this into a PR SUCCESS and instead decided to attack the method of criticism and attempt to shift the blame of the tasteless ad onto someone else.

It's tacky and easy to see through. He could have ended the conversation there by offering to take a look at the video and instead decided to turn it into a meta-"you're being mean" discussion that so often happens on reddit where... sure enough... 30 minutes later, people are bickering about meta aspects of the discussion instead of the original issue.

Re: OH HAI SEXISM

#10

Post by b0sk » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 5:47 PM UTC

asto wrote: post #5

I felt they're all behaving rather immaturely.

I agree, though, as founders of geeklist.. the two gents are held to a higher standard and they utterly failed.

It seems Shanley interviewed with them initially and didn't get the job? Maybe, that's the start of the issue.