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I remember reading a study that posited low status men tended toward misogyny when they felt threatened by the skill of women they were competing against, and t
by travmatt 9y ago
I remember reading a study that posited low status men tended toward misogyny when they felt threatened by the skill of women they were competing against, and this was the first thing that came to mind as I was reading over this whole saga.
- kennywinker 9y agoThat may be true, but: > the negative impact of my tweets was amplified by the fact that I, a white, Western, male CEO of a key company in the Maker community This guy was not low status by any definition.
- bigiain 9y agoJust 'cause he's a CEO, doesn't mean he's not insecure and misogynistic...
- travmatt 9y agoMost of the comments here reference the fact that her skill is self evident. He could easily have felt threatened by her technical skill, and the fact he couldn’t plainly see it as other commenters did adds credence to his own deficit of technical ability. The fact that he maintained a sustained slander campaign when he ostensibly had other priorities implies he felt that ‘exposing’ her became important to him, again a trait of insecure, low status individuals.
- danielhooper 9y agoReplace "low status" with "insecure" as many high-status men have proven otherwise