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Why is it even worth pointing out there team has no women? The original "call out" tweet was very snarky. There are 9 staff, not including a few advisors. So i

Why is it even worth pointing out there team has no women? The original "call out" tweet was very snarky. There are 9 staff, not including a few advisors. So its probably the case that they all knew each other before the comapny existed. If there were no women in their lab, theres not much they can do about that. What would the correct response be? "Sorry we didn't know any women when we started, we shouldnt have done anything until the right quota of women showed up." Should they fire and replace 4 staff with women or just hire 9 women even though they might not have enough revenue to do so?

michaelmior 10y ago
Regardless of what you think of the original tweet, the response is ridiculous.
StavrosK 10y ago
I agree with your general sentiment, but their response does sound a bit weird. It would have been fine with me if they had said "oh it's just by chance, plus most of us knew eachother from before we started". Saying "we have no female roles" and "oh we get paid less so we're all women" (wtf?) isn't handling the situation well.
- kauffj 10y ago
  It was a crass and tone-deaf attempt on our part to signal awareness. Lesson learned. Subsequent attempts to engage sincerely were also met with derision, so I'm not sure anything could have ever been done that wouldn't have been met similarly.
  - haldean 10y ago
    Your attempt to respond sincerely was to say you don't have any women on staff because you don't have any executive assistants or office managers, which even a generous reader would call a sexist reason: https://mobile.twitter.com/LBRYio/status/844194654656626688 https://mobile.twitter.com/LBRYio/status/844194654656626688
    - beaugunderson 10y ago
      yeah... clearly they haven't learned :/
      - StavrosK 10y ago
        To be fair, I think that was even before my reply.
cdubzzz 10y ago
The initial tweet was not even snarky. It was just trolling. As with most trolling, it should have simply been ignored. The responses are the damaging aspect here. "Our salaries are low" and "we don't have any EAs" are just painfully bad ways to respond.

michaelmior 10y ago

Regardless of what you think of the original tweet, the response is ridiculous.

StavrosK 10y ago

I agree with your general sentiment, but their response does sound a bit weird. It would have been fine with me if they had said "oh it's just by chance, plus most of us knew eachother from before we started". Saying "we have no female roles" and "oh we get paid less so we're all women" (wtf?) isn't handling the situation well.

kauffj 10y ago
It was a crass and tone-deaf attempt on our part to signal awareness. Lesson learned. Subsequent attempts to engage sincerely were also met with derision, so I'm not sure anything could have ever been done that wouldn't have been met similarly.
- haldean 10y ago
  Your attempt to respond sincerely was to say you don't have any women on staff because you don't have any executive assistants or office managers, which even a generous reader would call a sexist reason: https://mobile.twitter.com/LBRYio/status/844194654656626688 https://mobile.twitter.com/LBRYio/status/844194654656626688
  - beaugunderson 10y ago
    yeah... clearly they haven't learned :/
    - StavrosK 10y ago
      To be fair, I think that was even before my reply.

cdubzzz 10y ago

The initial tweet was not even snarky. It was just trolling. As with most trolling, it should have simply been ignored. The responses are the damaging aspect here. "Our salaries are low" and "we don't have any EAs" are just painfully bad ways to respond.