Guy explains to CEO of Signal (messaging) that it's going to add "AI" to the service. She says no. He insists, not knowing or caring who he's talking down to.

https://www.spottednews.com/politics/whos-going-to-tell-him-man-explains-the-handmaids-tale-to-atwood/

Double-secret

Same difference

No lol

Lemmy users will really do anything before they believe a woman, won't they?

What a weird take on this.

I'll do anything before I believe a CEO. Gender is a social construct.

If I found out I was talking down to a Microsoft exec when I thought I was talking to a regular employee, I'd double down.

I would have told them to bring back Clippy 📎 as an AI companion, but inappropriately erotic. 👠

the guy is representing himself as having special knowledge about what Signal is doing internally and what they’ll do next.

I didn't get that impression- to me it just came off as him being cynical about platform enshittification.

Like, with recent news of Nexus being sold, my reaction was to join a chorus of others excplaiming that Nexus is about to be shit. We don't know that - we just know it's being sold. But we've all seen a ton of services follow a similar path, so the assumption feels justified. If a Nexus employee came out and said "Don't panic, literally nothing is going to change!" Whether that came from the janitor or CEO, I'd have a similar knee-jerk as the dude in the OP.

I also have no idea who the old or new CEO of Nexis is. If it happens to be a woman, me arguing with her wouldn't be from sexism, it'd be because Nexus is setting the stage to go down the toilet.

Dude in OP absolutely could just be a misogynistic prick, but there's certainly not enough info in the screencap to say so with any certainty.

Important context. Yeah that definitely reduces the benefit of the doubt, but I still wouldn't jump to sexism. People refer to the organizations they're employed by as 'we' all the time - that doesn't imply any kind of authority. He definitely assumed she was a nobody, but 99.999% of us are just peasants milking a roof over our heads from a system we have absolutely no control over... so, assuming she's a nobody is a pretty safe assumption. Were she a dude and all else the same, I don't see the conversation going any differently.

There are tons, and tons, and tons, and tons of examples of demonstrable and absolutely clear misogyny in our dumb fucking society - it's really not necessary to try to find it by attempting to read between the lines.

So... unless that dude has a history of misogynistic bs, imo the safer assumption is that he's being cynical about platform enshittification (and reasonably so when you consider the patterns shown by every single other platform), vs an attack based on gender.

Because nobody on the internet ever talks down to a man.

And sometimes idiots are sexist.

Why are you dismissing this as a possibility?

It's a phenomenon where men assume they have superior knowledge to women, even if the woman their talking to is literally an expert in her field.

True. I'm sure plenty of mansplaining comes from blistful ignorance and unawareness, rather than outright misogynisticly driven malice, which is not a valid excuse to be an asshole.

It’s not a personal account if she identifies herself as the CEO.

Edit: The people downvoting me maybe forgot what happened with Proton and their CEO.

In this case brevity is not the soul of wit. It was a dumb reply to a comment that didn’t deserve one to begin with.

What does this even mean or have to do with what I said?