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The textilist seems to be accusing NPR of not mentioning her, but Martha herself said she couldn't find anyone to make them. Was @RealSexyCyborg in contact with
by grumple 5y ago
The textilist seems to be accusing NPR of not mentioning her, but Martha herself said she couldn't find anyone to make them. Was @RealSexyCyborg in contact with NPR? Or Martha? If anything, it seems the article itself is meant to encourage someone to provide the help that @RealSexyCyborg admits she needed someone else to do. How many others were contacted by Martha but couldn't produce the product at the end? Does each require an explicit mention?
Then the accusation that this effort was omitted because she wasn't a white tech bro is out of left field and frankly, very unlikely. NPR regularly goes out of its way to provide viewpoints and credit well outside the "white tech bro" sphere.
- themaninthedark 5y agoI don't know what research was done but it looks like @RealSexyCyborg had made some and shipped them in 2019... as well as making a YouTube video about it. Seeing as this is a 2021 story, either Martha did not receive the parts, the parts needed a revision or they did no research. If the parts needed a revision, you would expect the story to say something like 'an entrepreneur has been working with Martha to create replacements but they are having trouble with final fitment.' The article: She has only a handful of collars left. "I really am desperate," she says. "That's the most scary thing in my life right now — is not finding anybody that can make those collars." Makes it sound like noone has tried to do anything. So that leaves someone who has tried to help with the feeling that they are being ignored either by malicious or incompetent.