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Re:The Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds by RyanZAG on Monday July 08, 2013 @05:45PM (#6009548)
Calm down a second. You're obviously taking offense of the phrase "The chick in charge of the Internal Tools team?". While the word is often used in the fairly female hostile line of "I'm off to pick up chicks", it also has a very common usage for an (attractive) young woman in certain demographics.

As far as I can tell, the OP is not trying to make a misogynistic comment on purpose and biting his head off and shouting at him is not going to help the community, or the OP, or your point. If this was an actual misogynistic comments - "A girl in Google? Fire her!" - then the outrage would be well placed. A very commonly used colloquial term, however, at most deserves a polite request to use better language in future.

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Re:The Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds by crazygringo on Monday July 08, 2013 @05:52PM (#6009585)
I understand your point, but even according to your second definition ("an attractive young woman"), it comes across as misogynistic.

Because simply referring to her as "the chick who..." basically implies that she is principally a "chick" -- not a smart woman, not a capable professional, but just a "chick". Outside of professional contexts, it can sometimes be fine, but in commenting on a professional article, it absolutely is demeaning and there is no place for it.

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Re:The Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds by mixmixmix on Monday July 08, 2013 @06:41PM (#6009846)
>> ("an attractive young woman"), it comes across as misogynistic

No, it doesn't.

I think you should invest in a good dictionary. You're walking on very, very thin ice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

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Re:The Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds by weareconvo on Monday July 08, 2013 @06:03PM (#6009657)
Says the guy named "crazygringo".
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Re:The Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds by weareconvo on Monday July 08, 2013 @05:53PM (#6009592)
Thank you for the benefit of the doubt. Admittedly, if I cared about being taken seriously, I would've chosen my words more carefully. However, I just felt like dashing off a quick comment to let people know that the core tone of the article is at odds with reality.
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