Is there a company that has achieved world transforming impact without at least some employees calling it “toxic”?
Some may feel it's dismissive of the complaints. But 95% or more of the complaints in the letter are characterizations, not descriptions. Take for example the HR executive groping another employee. What does groping mean? Brushing? Back of the hand? Possibly accidental? Grabbing? Pinching? This is a pattern with activists, using characterizations. And the executive was fired after the groping incident, which means...the system works? He was fired in spite of being a high-level exec, in spite of his personal ties to Bezos.
Another example concerns a female manager I believe who was fired abruptly. This is presented as an example of a bias in favor of men. So... no man's ever been fired abruptly? No man's ever been escorted out of the building by security? It's not allowed to fire women abruptly?
Yet another example in the letter is a man saying to a group of women something like "you need to listen to me because I'm a man". But... isn't that what feminism is? Don't feminists go to groups of men and say "You have to listen to me for no other reason than I'm a woman".
It's difficult for me to see how any thinking person can read that letter and not see it as an example of fainting feminism. [Edited, spelling, sarcasm removed]
For your listen to me argument just "NO". It doesn't matter what your straw man feminist says, at a workplace it is NOT ok to say "you need to listen to me because I'm a man". It is also not ok to say "you need to listen to me because I'm a woman"