Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by bedhead on Friday July 10, 2015 @05:37PM (#9866885)

During the KP trial I had always kept an open mind towards her arguments...until I later learned she was married to Buddy Fletcher, one of the biggest scoundrels and thieves in the investment world in recent years. The character and judgment of a person who would fall in love and wed someone like that says more than I can articulate. It's oddly reassuring to see my (and many, many others') skepticism about both her judgment and motives validated.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by lingben on Friday July 10, 2015 @05:43PM (#9866937)

Everything about their saga is bizarre. Did you know that up until his marriage to Ellen, Buddy had lived as a homosexual? he was living with a partner of multiple years (Hobart “Bo” Fowlkes) and was openly gay. Not that there is anything odd or wrong about that.

It is just rather strange how these two polarizing figures came together in a union.

For more info and details see:

http://www.vanityfair.com/style/scandal/2013/03/buddy-fletch...

And then there are the KP employee reviews and other internal documents which became public as a result of the trial she lost that show Ellen Pao to be a thoroughly unproductive and toxic employee who was given every opportunity to shape up but was too busy engrossed in the internal office politics and making 'enemy lists'.

If someone made a movie about this stuff and the people involved, most would think it too unrealistic.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by golergka on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:54PM (#9867444)

> Not that there is anything odd or wrong about that.

I find it really strange when people talk about someone's personal life details and then say that there's nothing odd or wrong about it. Especially when right before that they say that their personal situation is "bizzare", and the reader kinda expects to learn, what is so bizzare about it.

So, why did you bring his bisexuality up in that comment?

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by adventured on Friday July 10, 2015 @07:23PM (#9867608)

How do you know he's bisexual?

You're guilty of making a vast assumption about the context.

What would be wrong with a marriage of political or business convenience involving no sex, if that's what it is? Obviously nothing. You've matter-of-fact labeled his sexuality without knowing either way.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by golergka on Friday July 10, 2015 @07:27PM (#9867629)

I just used the word to refer to the point made in the original comment. I didn't really make any statements or assumptions about this person, and my comment wasn't even about this person at all — my comment was about the semantics of the parent comment.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by x3n0ph3n3 on Friday July 10, 2015 @10:38PM (#9868263)

Something being "bizarre" is entirely orthogonal to "right vs wrong" value judgements.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by nawitus on Friday July 10, 2015 @05:50PM (#9866996)

The article states that Buddy lived with a boyfriend, which is not the same as living as a homosexual, as he might be bisexual. Some other articles state that he was "openly gay", but perhaps those articles are slightly incorrect.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by jacobwcarlson on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:15PM (#9867218)

The VF article also states that Fletcher dated exclusively women while at Harvard, and that "Fowlkes wasn’t surprised that his former boyfriend had become involved with a woman."

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by mnglkhn2 on Friday July 10, 2015 @05:45PM (#9866955)

One of the issues during the trial was for KP to show that she had options outside the firm and that her dismissal was not detrimental to her career. The CEO of Reddit gig came in nicely to prove just that. Even if she was just an interim CEO. Now the actual CEO is in place, considering that she did not work out ok for Reddit.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by LGBT_2000 on Saturday July 11, 2015 @10:53PM (#9872431)

Stop it. Woman do not somehow have to share the blame for their husbands alleged misdeeds. Seriously, this is 2015, not the middle ages where they'd burn a woman at the stake for something her husband did wrong.

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