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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up by julianmarq on Sunday March 28, 2021 @08:07PM (#26616206)
> try harder? have more tact? [...] have a little more awareness?

But isn't the cautious behavior mentioned already an example of this?

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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up by julianmarq on Sunday March 28, 2021 @08:46PM (#26616491)
> 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 reasonable to kill someone's career.

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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up by rafale on Sunday March 28, 2021 @09:59PM (#26616939)
Also, in the public opinion court, it's no longer innocent until proven guilty, it's #believeallwomen. The pendulum has swung too far and it's time we center and de-radicalize the messages we carry around.
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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up by bufferoverflow on Sunday March 28, 2021 @09:13PM (#26616654)
No, you must have missed the last 2 decades of "everything is sexist" narrative [1]. You can't expect for this to go on and have no counter-reaction. Men simply remove themselves from the conversations to not be labeled as sexists. Not because they are, but because there are so many women who interpret everything men do as sexist.

[1]: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anita_Sarkeesian

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