It isn't. Posting pics of them is. Imagine (please, I don't think we are, as a collective, looking at the converse of this) a man taking a picture of the two ladies I discussed. The internetz would be going batshit right now.

I'd rather not disclose, as saying would make immediately noticeable both my profession and area public. Suffice it to say, it is a male dominated field, controlled in the south by the good ol' boys' club. That may even provide enough to guess! =D

=) Thank you, friend. You've made my day.

Agree. 100%. It does. I am also irritated that people are turning this into something it absolutely isn't ("zOMG! Brave woman takes down awful men trying to destroy women in technology!1!1!11one!")

That is a false and flawed assumption.

I don't see that they were sexualizing women. I see them, if anything, sexualizing their own gender.

Of course! And thank you for a delightful conversation this evening!

I'm sure that is the avalanche no one expected. I think it brings about valid discourse, however, on the exquisite force and danger of social media. It is certainly a formidable weapon, but it is a double edged sword that can hurt you as easily as it allows you to hurt others.

This is so true and so valuable. I think women will only have true equality when we can demand, grasp and obtain it for ourselves.

YES! Akin is a frustrating turd, for sure, but no one deserves physical violence or threats of physical violence. I don't think men get it as often or (going out on a limb here) are as traumatized by it as women are, since it is a daily, real threat to women.

I agree with you, friend. My path is just a bit more along the "do no harm" path; her chosen path left her and one of those men without a job and I simply think it was reckless.

Her (former) CEO puts it better than I probably could: http://blog.sendgrid.com/a-difficult-situation/

I hereby reserve the right to use, possess and claim exclusive domain of the phrase, "suffocate in my snatch." =)

I absolutely agree. (Look in the comments in my comment alone! There's already one terri-fucking-fying weirdo saying awful things about her.) Our one point of divergence is that I believe men DO receive these type of threats—probably not to the same degree—but I agree wholeheartedly that it is not okay and waaaaay out…

That's surely what they'd like you to believe! =D

I also could have said, "Hey! Shut the fuck up!" or gone to get one of the event's staffers but the difference in our versions is that mine wasn't publicly shaming two men, severely impacting their careers.

I can understand feeling uncomfortable and not wanting to confront someone (I tend to not have a problem with confrontation but I can envision social situations where it might make someone else uncomfortable.) Why wouldn't she have just gotten up to complain to a staffer at the Con (she did this also, I just read in…

Yes! Exactly. I'm a woman and I could, too (in fact, I've probably made worse jokes in public!) I could also see myself talking about boobs at a conference and I'd be baffled as hell when someone made it out to be a sexual harassment argument! To me, it was rude to be talking during a conference and make a slightly…

I feel the onslaught coming in 5..4..3..but I still have to say it.