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Re: Why No Women Want To Be On A “Women In Tech” Panel

marahmarie — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:41:21 -0000

"Why aren't there more women in tech, whine, bitch, moan, wah, blah blah blah?"

You know why there aren't more women in tech? Too much whining by women about why there aren't more women in tech. The "blame someone else" (in this case, men) mentality. The "The glass ceiling is holding me down!" conspiracy theory, rivaled only by "Bush took down the towers" for sheer preposterousousness. I hate to borrow from an Elton John song, but girls, please grow some funk of your own: this is bullshit.

"Basically reasons for why there isn’t (sic: that should be "aren't") more women in our industry are well known and much discussed, primarily the lack of role models for women who are interested in tech. "

It isn't lack of role models, ladies. It is lack of pioneers. So stop moaning and crying and get off your asses and do it yourself if you want it done. Don't wait for someone to break the ground for you.

And before you go off all sideways on me about what a misogynistic son of a bitch I must be to write all that, hold up....I'm a woman, too, so save the fiery speeches for the gender you claim is against you.

I'm sick of the "why-us" attitudes inherent in every version of this discussion.

Re: Why We Sold TechCrunch To AOL, And Where We Go From Here

marahmarie — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:43:19 -0000

Well, that narrows it down.

*eye roll*

North of or else right about on $32 million.

Do not make fun of my grammar.

Re: Why We Sold TechCrunch To AOL, And Where We Go From Here

marahmarie — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:37:53 -0000

Mike, congratulations. If it makes you happy all's well. I am kind of surprised to see you're staying on - I always thought if you sold TC you would just move on, but now that I know you'll be sticking around, I'm glad to hear it. I have complained about the quality of TC declining over the last few years, but I attribute that mostly to the increasing lack of *you* on TC. If you get back to more writing like you used to do in TC's earlier days, I for one will be happy to see it. Good luck!

Re: Tips on Handling Online Stalking & Harassment

marahmarie — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:03:53 -0000

"What was ignored was that it must have been an AOL employee."

Despite the fact that you were assured numerous times by both me and Joe that it most likely wasn't. He once worked for AOL and I know a thing or two about them myself, so I'd take our word for it that AOL employees were clearly not the source of your trouble. I hope you have filed a police report as both me and Joe advised, and I hope you have googled "how to hack an AOL account"- you will not believe how easy it is, how often it's done, or how frequently it's accomplished by taking information you put in message board posts and using it to crack your accounts the easy way - by guessing.

Joe - clearly I haven't stopped by your blog in a while. I stopped back in August when you seemed to slow down. Just catching up. Will email you...

Re: AOL Settles Suit Regarding Email Footers (Lulz)

marahmarie — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:47:24 -0000

I don't know if I got an email about it. I have an AOL account for testing purposes at itcouldntb@aol.com (spam it, please - I don't use it for real email so I don't care) but I haven't checked it for my latest load of spam in a while. I can't believe this went to class action and I really can't believe AOL chose to donate to charity to settle it - how many people has AOL put in the poor house by overcharging and not canceling accounts - considering those figures, the settlement doesn't begin to cover them. Just today I got email from another former user - they've been charging her $20-something dollars every month since she canceled last fall. We're talking over $400 worth of stolen money for an account she called up and canceled just like she was supposed to. I get fed up sometimes reading email after email just like hers year in and year out - the subject matter never changes, just the names.