Game the system until it works for you! Awesome! That being said, we need to change the system yesterday.
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Therein lies the problem; complacency + opportunism.
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Well I have to say I’m not a bit surprised. The surprising part is more women (and minorities) don’t use this tactic.
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“Early on a web developer they brought on to help build the site tried to stealthily delete everything after Gazin declined to go on a date with him.”
Now that is sad.
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Oh, he’s a breadr
And NBC did it in 1982.
Ah @M_Dub beat me to it.
Glad the show is remembered.
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(Yes, this is real. I’m embarrassed to say, I’ve probably still got the cassette tossed in a box somewhere. When I was younger, I used to hunt through bargain bins to see if anything tickled my fancy. With a name like that, I thought, why not?)
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was it an enjoyable trainwreck?
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Yeah, it was. With a name like that, I half-expected it to be some sort of Spinal Tap-type parody. It wasn’t, it was serious, fairly decent (if kinda generic) hard-rock/speed-metal. I can still remember listening to it while I studied for my college classes…
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IMO, you had the COTD on this article. It’s bittersweet to note how many people are still oblivious about a) the number of defensive tactics women have to engage in on a regular basis, and b) that women have been using pseudonyms to avoid inequality and/or harassment for centuries. This practice is widely used in my industry, but people who don’t need to do this tend not to notice it.
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The very first time I saw the name “C.J. Cherryh” I was certain it was a pseudonym. Reading her books, I had a hunch she was a woman, especially since her book jackets carefully avoided gendered pronouns.
So there you go.
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It seems that you didn’t read my entire post…
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Until other evidence presents itself, I usually assume that writers with initials instead of first names are women.
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A guy I went to school with writes “vampire romance” novels and uses his initials, but I’m not sure if that’s to give the impression of a female author or if it’s just easier to fit it under the title that way.
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“children of men”, anyone?
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No, I assure you I did. Just wanted to represent Remington Steele. Then I saw M_dub was there already.
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The one who immediately springs to mind for me:
ETA: Well, that one-boxes a little unfortunately…
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Urgency, actually.
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I wish people were better than this. 
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Complacency + opportunism = the Obstacle: a broken system that some people would rather stay broken just because it benefits them.
Urgency is what’s needed, I do concur.
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