Michelle Greer
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

Bravo. You’re awesome.

One point though:
“I fundamentally disagree with this former Google exec, who claims that he would never assign someone, especially a woman, to work with the author of the manifesto, and then goes on to say he would fire him for expressing these opinions.”

The reason people tend to avoid subjects like politics, religion, gender, race, etc at work is because it creates controversy. I wouldn’t want to be on this guy’s team, just as much as I wouldn’t want to be on a team with anyone who expresses strong opinions about any controversial subject at work. I’m *at work.* While you may be perfectly okay expressing your views on gender with this guy, I don’t want to mix my place of employment with my personal beliefs. It’s not my job to educate men on gender theory.

A person can strongly hold creationist beliefs, or be a porn-obsessed Trump supporter. If the work they produce is good, I genuinely don’t care. I just don’t want to talk about it at work.

    Michelle Greer

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    Marketing and Comms Lead at Bonsai.io. Formerly at Heroku, Nexmo, and Twitter. Silly aunt to many. Occasional international spy.