ottaross, 3 months ago to random

#Mulroney was also guilty of the classic #GlassCliff treatment of Kim Campbell.

He simultaneously set a prominent woman up for abject failure, and robbed anyone of the opportunity to be the celebrated and successful first female prime minister of Canada in the future.

He gave misogynists a generation worth of opportunities to say "well we tried a woman once, and we saw how that worked out."

bkeegan, 10 months ago to random

Threads is on Step 2, Bluesky is on Step 3, Twitter is on Step 6.

1️⃣ Social platform punts on trust and safety to scale and ship features.

2️⃣ Dipshits arrive and harass marginalized people.

3️⃣ Outrage ensues, platform makes token gestures.

4️⃣ Dipshits complain about loss of free speech.

5️⃣ Platform reverses token gestures.

6️⃣ Dipshits attract more dipshits.

raccoon, 1 year ago to internet

Well, #Twitter has a new CEO, and since it's a woman and the company is failing, everyone is bringing up the #glasscliff theory as a forward excuse.

Sadly, there's nothing, a woman can do to prevent falling victim to this patriarchic trap, like, let's say, turning down the job offer. So not wishing Twitter the best of luck henceforth is now a case of gender discrimination. Thank you #feminism. 🤦‍♂️

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff

Loukas, 1 year ago to random

The twitter CEO news makes me think of this classic Onion headline from 2008. #GlassCliff

velobetty, 1 year ago to random

What Else Musk is doing by stepping away as CEO and employing a women is likely a sign that Twitter is in real trouble and he needs, well, a fall...girl.

This has been seen before and is termed the #GlassCliff where companies who are in crisis employ a woman to blame when she eventually can't fix all the issues and the company inevitably fails.

If so, Twitter will likely be filing for bankruptcy within a couple of years.

There's no way Musk will be doing this because it's a positive thing.