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Don't blame me or others for what one company does. That is just ridiculous. Even if they claim they represent "us". They don't represent me, so I felt entitled to flag their story. It certainly doesn't provide any statistics on the sexism of geeks. It is just a bad anecdote (a company claiming to cater to geeks behaves in a sexist way -> all geeks must be sexist).


Why on earth do you think I am blaming you? I'm not. I'm not suggesting that their actions represent the actions of "geeks", either. All I am saying is that GeekList is a company made by techies and used by techies- and article about them might be of interest to techies. I don't think that's a giant leap in thinking. Aside from anything else it was an instructive tale on how (not) to deal with customer complaints.


Fair enough. Perhaps that article only had the bad luck to be washed in with a whole wave of sexism discussions.




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