Ya gotta wonder. Will any of those alleged applying interns come forward?

Exactly. They probably brag that they are culturally sensitive - offering vegetarian food. And all interested in healthy food, sensitive to employees. And brag they encourage mass transit - sensitive to the environment. And brag they are the most forward thinking credit card payment company, sensitive to what the…

The "we have to go back" argument always makes me think the writer is saying "oh, god, not now, not now, anything but actually CONFRONTING the dudes, how awkward..." If you direct people away from the current problem back to girls in kindergarten, then you don't have that awkward...asking and expecting something more…

Yes, increasingly, we are privatizing (illegally really) what was once something we did collectively, through collective taxes. So that, if you are poor or on the margins, too bad. Your poorness is between you and a corporation - with the force of the IRS to enforce your nonpayments to product buying.

That they would not think it's a problem is indicative of the culture. Once, there was an announcement from a startup on one of the tech blogs about a wall mural they had painted in the startup's offices of a young woman who, the CEO said represented "the user." They had no women working for their company, even in…

This should have the Saturday Night Live "Really, Twitter?" treatment. Really? Out of 12 or 13 intern, entry level positions, there were no women you could find applying for your A-list company? Really? No women applied?No women could understand credit card payments?

See, in the case of many high tech companies, one "no" is an out. So if women are on the hiring teams, it's a balance. For instance, if a dick like you played this crap during an interview, I'd say "no." You're not a good fit. And the team would be better for it.

Man you are such a great tool. You should be interviewed by Fox News.

I think the great Bill Hicks once said: "America: you are free to do what we tell you to do...Go back asleep America..."

Call it out directly. Say: You are worth as much at any size. You are loved. You are beautiful. Fat cells do not decrease your value, decrease the value of your soul, make you less than. Period. Fear is an ugly thing and an addiction. Tell her you think she is being run by a fear and ask her to call it out by name out…

Nope. The IRS can enforce non-payment of taxes.

Maybe you shouldn't. And you are owed a good cheering up and a lying about facts in order for you to move forward. Also, if you put your blankie over your head, the monsters can't get you. I don't think this represents new graduates because there are fierce feminists who are young and don't get air time. But don't…

Yeah. I can't believe an actual person in management would agree to this in a public forum. It's clearly biased to say you'd only ensure a female interviews if a female is interviewed.

Actually, yeah, there is a penalty. If you lie to the IRS, it's a federal offense. That's a minimum. If you don't pay your "tax", they can gather it up like any other unpaid tax and include growing fines over time and use the full power to collect it, including garnishing your wages or seizing property. Why do you…

You are right. I'm a diehard liberal, which you'd think would be for something labeled "Obama care." But I really don't think this federal mandate to buy a product to exist is a victory. I think they count on people being too stupid to really think about it. Meanwhile, corporate lobbyist got what they wanted: …

Yep. However, giving women the same power at work to reject candidates for "not being a good fit" at this dude nation tech companies is a step in the right direction. It's lame to say that they will only make sure women are in the interviewer's group if a woman is interviewed. Do you see what I mean?

Now your vagina will have it's own version of "papers please" to exist.

If you have a system, as most of these bromance tech companies do, of having those "peer interviews" where they can just say anything - they will bounce out women who they do not want to work with just because they are women with some vague reason or a lie. They want an environment where women are only included as the…

It does matter. If you have peer interviews where one vote can knock you out, you can imagine in a group of men in a sexist profession, there would be one that considers it an insult to work with a woman as a peer or superior and they give some vague, unsupported reason or a lie to reject the candidate. If you have…

Having a woman on interviews of women can be largely symbolic. For real power, you need women on every interview committee. In many high tech companies, you have "peer interviews." One "no" and you are out. There are men who do not want to work with women as peers. Some consider it an insult due to their culture. They…