...nd no one cares how I’m sitting. Of course, I still want my colleagues to like me, so I still bend a knee to gender norms. I simply say what needs to be said in [[Slack]], throw in an exclamation point and a nice [[emoji]], and call it a day. It’s much easier to perform your gender with a dancing penguin than by “power posing” or whatever. And best of all, Slack breaks t...

The technological facilitation of gender performance -- will this raise the bar for us all, though?

...ave to think about any of that.” Women are often punished for not behaving gently and communally. But on the internet, nobody knows you’re a bitch. “One thing that women need to d...

I am dead sure the author is justifiedly proud of this sentence.

...ways welcome in digital spaces. When the audience is large and unregulated, women can feel shut down, harassed, or ignored, says Susan Herring, an Indiana University professor who researches gender and digital communication. But in situations where a teacher or a boss is reading what people say—like a classroom discussion group or a workplace Slack channel—people are more likely to be civil. Some women and members of margin...

Also -- receipts!

...oid speaking for a few minutes. (It’s also much more obvious when you are stifling your anger in person than when you are typing and deleting draft Slack messages. I typically do this in an offline text file to avoid the ominous “Olga is typing.”) But the effect is that by writi...

Oh, Maya is typing. Maya can be typing for eight minutes for a single syllable answer. That's communication, baby.

...t work are disingenuous anyway. Do you really care how that person’s weekend was? Is someone telling you that the...

...yes? Is this level of human interest really that hard for people?

...eople are unpleasant in person. To me, getting terse edits in Google Docs is preferable to the time an old-fashioned editor sat me down, looked at my draft, looked at me, and said soberly, “Words matter.” I am not suggesting that anyone ...

I wish scabies on this person.