Somebody was (reportedly) rude. This is only news when the person being rude is male and the person on the receiving end is female. THEN it's proof of how horrible men are.
Kind of like the reverse of: http://xkcd.com/385
Kind of like the reverse of: http://xkcd.com/385
Uh, it's taped. You can listen to it yourself by simply clicking on a link.
This is only news when the person being rude is male and the person on the receiving end is female.
Are you saying female sexism is common in the tech startup world? Can you cite any examples?
THEN it's proof of how horrible men are.
Where has anyone claimed all men are horrible? I must have missed it.
It is an example of an horrible culture, which fortunately is diminishing.
The whole point is that a man being rude about another man in this particular way -- by superfluously mentioning his attractiveness -- is exceedingly rare, while for women it is all too common. One would be an aberration, the other is pattern, and the pattern is why it's at the top of HN.
ugh. Sexism is an attitude, the rude introduction was the action. Who cares why it was rude? It shouldn't be more offensive because you can (correctly or not) ascribe a motive to it that you find distasteful.
Trying to decry this sort of thing and speak up in "defense of women" or any of that garbage infantilizes women and perpetuates a much more serious problem than men noticing how we look.