(NSFW, obviously)
I’m not part of her market demographic, but bless Ms. Silverman for…. stepping up in support of the National Women’s Law Center.
(If only for driving the MRAs a little further out of their tiny minds.)
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(NSFW, obviously)
I’m not part of her market demographic, but bless Ms. Silverman for…. stepping up in support of the National Women’s Law Center.
(If only for driving the MRAs a little further out of their tiny minds.)
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Mike E
It’s me birthday…I’m 29 for the 23rd time!
sharl
Hahaha, well AL, judging from the number of down-votes and pissy comments over at the You-Tube site – again, NSFW due mostly to the visuals – I think your end note about her riling up the MRAs is likely correct.
Go get ’em Sarah!
ETA: Happy Birthday, Mike E!
Violet
@Mike E: Happy birthday!
Amir Khalid
@Mike E:
I wish you many happy returns of the day.
sharl
@Violet: Hey, good to see you! I haven’t been around here much lately, but the last time I was, folks were wondering about you, and getting worried.
I hope all is well (or at least passable).
Mike E
@Violet: @Amir Khalid: Thanks. 2014 couldn’t end soon enough, being a roundly shitty year by most people’s estimation…so I’m using the occasion as a springboard to propel me onward to a better 2015! Finished my 1st full day on the phone of GOTV, 21 more to go before election day. We gotta keep those pink drill bits out of NC!
ETA thanks, Sharl
sharl
In keeping with the topic of the post, the relatively new CEO of Microsoft really stepped in it yesterday, advising women – at a conference for women in tech, no less – to not ask for raises, but rather to ‘rely on karma’.
Although he attempted damage control later – with at best only limited success – Satya Nadella really kicked the hornets’ nest during the 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference. Reactions by the author at that link and tech journalist Nitasha Tiku were typical of the responses of tech wimminz.
Anne Laurie
@Mike E: Happy birthday, young’un!
Amir Khalid
@sharl:
Nadella counsels an audience of women that good things come to her who waits. He seems to believe what he said, that his mistake was to express himself tactlessly (or to use his word, to be “inarticulate”); but as head of the famously aggressive (some even say predatory) Microsoft, he would surely not tolerate such passivity in a male executive.
The CEO of Microsoft — or of pretty much any corporation, come to that — doesn’t just live in a bubble, he helped create/sustain it on his way up. As CEO, he’s pretty much its current landlord. Nadella’s not the person to challenge the unspoken assumptions that people live by inside the Microsoft company bubble.
Gene108
@Mike E:
Happy Birthday.
c u n d gulag
Thanks for the laugh – and a point well made by Ms. (Mr.?) Silverman!
jon
There is some unhappiness with the bit, coming from the trans community. Their disgruntlement is about the processes some of them claim to be essential being turned into jokes at the expense of some other group.
Noted. Ignored. Moving on.
Cissexism is a thing, but using this as an example is like saying Mitchell and Webb are Nazis because they don’t explain their position strongly enough in their “Bad Guys” sketch.
MattF
@c u n d gulag: I think Mx. Silverman.
Anne Laurie
@jon: Very, very old political joke:
How many activists does it take to change a lightbulb?
That’s not funny, you heartless bigot!!!!
Mike E
@Anne Laurie: Alternate punchline: Quit oppressing me!!
BethanyAnne
The joke’s always funnier when you aren’t the punchline.
jon
@BethanyAnne: The joke is on the patriarchy. It’s not a joke on women, trans or otherwise. The text is “Get a penis.” The subtext is “This is an outrageous way to obtain gender equality, end bias based on sex/gender/et cetera, and so forth.”
It’s not punching down to attack the patriarchy, unless you’re an MRA.
Cervantes
@sharl: Quoting you-know-who:
True for men as well, I’m sure he clarified.
Suzanne
@sharl: When I quit my last job, my male boss was mad at me for leaving (new place offered me a lot more money and a higher position), and he told me it would have been better to wait it out at my current place to see if I would have been promoted, because “patience is a virtue”. I told him my career was too important to let someone else be in control. He didn’t like that.
sharl
@sharl: NPR’s All Things Considered just aired an interview with the woman who was on stage speaking with the CEO of Microsoft when he uttered his Very Unpopular Opinion about women asking for raises, in front of a bunch of women in tech. The audio won’t be available at this site until 7pm EDT or thereabouts, but here’s the summary of the segment:
Klawe disagreed – both on stage and in this ATC interview – with Nadella’s viewpoint, but IMO she gave a rather nuanced and thoughtful analysis of the whole thing. Obviously, as a Microsoft director and presumably a participant in the decision to hire Nadella as CEO, Klawe isn’t going to go all HULK SMASH on the incident. But even bearing that in mind, Klawe’s views that (a.) Nadella’s statement is compatible with and relevant to his socio-cultural background, and (b.) this event can potentially be used as a teachable moment to take Microsoft personnel policies to a better place, are not implausible.
What Amir Khalid said in the second paragraph of his comment above (#9) is very relevant here: when you have organizational leaders from one (older) generation, and you want them to adopt newer practices that recognize newer (and hopefully more culturally advanced) realities, it is not an easy path. It is a necessary one though, and maybe these social tectonic plate shifts are how these things have to happen, at least in a big way.