Barry Boyes
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read

Thanks for your thoughtful article. I believe you have many valid points on this topic. Of great concern to me, as a technology manager and scientist, is the extremely cavalier use of the term, “female traits”. I really am uncomfortable with this pseudo-scientific construct, as I am with “male traits”. I’d sort of hoped we were past that in management circles. Perhaps a bit more precision in the use of the English language is in order … words clearly matter, or there would be little further consideration of this “manifesto”. Which, by the way, I don’t think is well named either. More like “bitching” than anything else. And don’t even get me started on the ramifications of that use of that word! I think I understand what the fellow was trying to say, I have some sympathy, but lets just say he really could have been a lot more sophisticated in his venue, presentation, and inner reflections. I hope he was not really talented, because, what a waste.

As a test, if the gender of this person was female, rather than male, or perhaps neither, then how would this have gone over? The asymmetry test could have helped, if the author of this “manifiesto” would have applied this to his thinking.