This is where I stopped reading. Pity author has to include such divisive comments. Given this is addressed to fathers of daughters of which I am one I don't see why it was necessary to include such remarks.
All she's saying is that she recommends trying to do business with and otherwise promote powerful women, if you can. It's not always possible. But being aware of it is a positive.
I have a hard time seeing how you can get so offended by such things. (I am a single dad of a daughter, so I start thinking that way myself)
Not sure where you are getting that she was suggesting telling the daughters themselves do that. Her approach is to point a daughter into growing into a powerful woman herself.
Very different thing.
Would you be so sanguine about promoting businesses because they are not women owned? Why can't you see that it's just discrimination against men?
Because you believe it's fine to discriminate against men, which is offensive and wrong.
"We no longer sell it (the author’s decision to just use Amazon, a female-led business, alas.)"
"All he's saying is that he recommends trying to do business with and otherwise promote powerful man, if you can. It's not always possible. But being aware of it is a positive."
If it comes across as crass, the initial statements are also likely to come across as crass, for a different population segment.
I am a white, English-as-a-first-language Anglo-Saxon male. Have been my whole life. And it's been pretty damn nice.
If someone makes critical stereotypes about white Anglo-Saxon males, I don't tend to get offended. And yet I am aware that making critical stereotypes about any of the less privileged classes (women, people of color, etc) is simply not ok, and those on the other side of it have every right to be offended.
Likewise, I don't get bent out of shape that I'm not allowed to attend a "women's programmers meetup," nor that I can't start a "men's programmers meetup" group without coming off as a sexist pig.
If you don't understand why this is true, I don't know what to say.
This is the same thing. I don't think Jeff Bezos is going to get too hurt that he's being discriminated against for being a man. He'll be ok.