Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin,

AND I’M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN,

And the minute we say 'okay, a government agency has free range to do whatever as long as they potentially are protecting us' is the minute nothing matters anymore because the terrorists have succeeded in making us all paranoid AND getting more of our freedoms taken away. It's a double-edged sword and there's no…

According to my superreligious family, it's been the end times since I was about 2.

Oh, Michelle.

I can't imagine what these people are going through. When my brother died 3 years ago, it took me over a year before I could even think about him without crying. Talking about him was out of the question. I don't know how you answer questions in depth and try to stay calm when someone you love died so recently.

I agree. I was the first woman scientist at a startup and was in the group with the bro-iest subculture. It was fine at first, because my boss was very supportive, but as the company grew we got layers, and so one of the dude-bros became my boss. After that it was all downhill. All business decisions were made…

I'm a woman of color also and I work as a tech writer and I gotta say that I think the problem is just as systemic here as it is in all STEM fields and its going to take more than just encouraging girls to pursue those careers; its going to take white men taking women (of all strips) seriously which I believe many of…

I think you mean BINDER

How interesting (not!). It was reported here on Jezebel just last year that Twitter had hired nothing but male interns.

I find it hard to believe that there is a lack of female applicants. I applied for a job there that I was way overqualified for and didn't even get a callback. My female friend who applied for another role she was experienced and qualified for got as far as interview but did not get through the interview stages.

they are. but then they have a harder time connecting with VC funding, without which a startup tends to stagnate at a base level of revenue.

Because structural sexism.

As someone who works with tech startups, I keep seeing this passed off as "culture." I can think of 4 right off the top of my head where the founders only brought in people just like them - white guys under 35 - and explained it as "it's important to have a good cultural fit" and so on. They tend to have these…

oh, a tech company lacks women in leadership? It must be a day that ends in y.

Costolo has tried to find women for the Twitter board, "but has found it difficult,"

I love that more shows are being led by women of color (Elementary, Sleepy Hollow, Scandal, The Mindy Project, and now this).

I thought "guts" was standard? As in "you've got a lot of guts to take a punch like that."

Yeah, I don't get all the hufflepuff hate. But also

As a particularly bro-y guy friend once said to me: "Balls to the wall! Ovaries to the grindstone!" The second one sounds harder, and I like it.