Was that really why people didn’t like Ellen Pao. I just didn’t like the way she was suppressing non damaging information not banning hate subs. Getting rid of the IAMA liaison was a bad call.
It’s called a glass cliff. The board wanted to do a bunch of really unpopular things, so they chose her to implement those changes and take the heat from the user base with her. Companies do it all the time, almost always it’s a woman, so “you just hate her because she is a woman” can be used as deflect. That’s why it’s called that, it looks like a woman breaking through the glass ceiling but it’s just a bunch of old white males pushing her off a glass cliff.
Yeah a lot of people gloss over that a woman was picked intentionally. Does no one remember how much sexist shit was spewed when she was in charge? The glass cliff is a documented phenomenon that specifically targets women.
Imagine if it had been another male CEO? They would have been far more popular with reddit’s userbase. Remember, Ellen spoke out against banning the subs that people got pissed off about. A woman was specifically chosen as reddit’s userbase is notoriously misogynist, to make spez look better in comparison. Because let’s be real, he ain’t a good CEO on his own accord.
Ellen Pao was a fall guy. Reddit’s real management, including Huffman, needed to do some janky shit and wanted someone to absorb all the user hate who could then be gotten rid of.
Was that really why people didn’t like Ellen Pao. I just didn’t like the way she was suppressing non damaging information not banning hate subs. Getting rid of the IAMA liaison was a bad call.
It’s called a glass cliff. The board wanted to do a bunch of really unpopular things, so they chose her to implement those changes and take the heat from the user base with her. Companies do it all the time, almost always it’s a woman, so “you just hate her because she is a woman” can be used as deflect. That’s why it’s called that, it looks like a woman breaking through the glass ceiling but it’s just a bunch of old white males pushing her off a glass cliff.
Twitter’s new CEO is on her own glass cliff. This tactic is so obvious.
Yeah a lot of people gloss over that a woman was picked intentionally. Does no one remember how much sexist shit was spewed when she was in charge? The glass cliff is a documented phenomenon that specifically targets women.
Imagine if it had been another male CEO? They would have been far more popular with reddit’s userbase. Remember, Ellen spoke out against banning the subs that people got pissed off about. A woman was specifically chosen as reddit’s userbase is notoriously misogynist, to make spez look better in comparison. Because let’s be real, he ain’t a good CEO on his own accord.
Ellen Pao was a fall guy. Reddit’s real management, including Huffman, needed to do some janky shit and wanted someone to absorb all the user hate who could then be gotten rid of.
That really was the canary in the coal mine that Reddit was all downhill from there on out