Love your work,

Chris

You rock Violet; keep it up.

So I don’t understand why anyone has a problem with what you said or how you acted. Your point should be worth arguing if they disagree. Unless they’re so far down Apple’s cultural rabbit hole that they can’t stand criticism of it. Which is what it feels like is actually happening. People only get this angry at someone in your position when you’ve made a damn good point that they can’t easily dismiss. They don’t want to discuss the issue because if you agree discuss your own culture, you tacitly admit it might not be the best, and that tends to undermine the whole happy happy joy joy feeling of being part of it – above the ability to denigrate all outsiders as inferior ‘others’.

Sorry you’re bearing the brunt of so much hostility. And sorry that some people aren’t adult enough to say ‘Gee, I acted like an ass, sorry about that.’

With that industry on the wain and no longer being a part of it, I have seen no reason to pay Apple’s Clique Tax… nor do I want to be a member of it.

Keep on calling out the douchebags as douchebags.

I feel very lucky to have men in my life who don’t need every woman they encounter to spell out for them that she’s a human being with feelings and an intellect in order to treat her as such. Shame on anyone who believes that any man who does is in any way justified or that anyone other than he and he alone is responsible.

Sadly, you ran afoul of mob mentality. All emotion. Twisted, if any, logic. Unrestrained histrionics and hyperbole.

While I’m sure you and I have distinctly different world views on some things, anybody willing to tell off Apple fanboys and call out the tyrannical Leo LaPorte has significant redeeming qualities in my book.

Keep up the good work.

Kudos.

Something my mother told me when I was a kid always comes to mind when I think about gender bias in my professional community. I asked her how on earth there could still be sexism in this day and age. She took my hand, and rubbed a finger on my wrist. “It’s like that. Doesn’t bother you very much, does it? Well imagine that all the time… every single day… hard to ignore now, huh?” It’s the little things.

I do not understand why the sexual bias exists in the tech community other than to bolster the tiny egos of the people that feel emasculated by women that show they can think and function on their own.

I used to use apple products quite a bit, my first being an Apple II but the snobbishness of the users and community has led me to only currently owning only one apple product, a laptop still running 9.2.2
The rest have been fed to the kids for science experiments in smashing things.

I am also an android phone user. It works pretty well, and has a lot of network and wifi apps that are not available for IOS. I believe there are currently more phones running android than IOS. It is the wave of at least the short term future.

This statement from Lefkowitz appears to make the assumption that all tech-men are inherently sexist, e.g. they view all women in a servile/sexual manner so they would “hesitate” to have their assumptions challenged.

Well that’s just plain silly. You see someone at a conference and you don’t know them? You ask them interestedly what they do.

I thoroughly concur about the monoculture at Apple. I’ve been loyal to Apple – not out of any fanboy-dom, just because their product is good – for long enough that to say how long would make me feel really old, but am increasingly disenfranchised of late. Although I use Mac OS, I don’t particularly care for the the elitist, svelte hardware I need to run it; and have no interest in the censored walled garden of iOS. (And am worried that the same ‘preserving-the-quality-of-the-user-environment’ argument might be used to lock down Mac OS in some future iteration.)