<story><title>Tinder&apos;s Forgotten Woman: Whitney Wolfe, Sexism, and Startup Creation Myths</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-02/tinders-forgotten-woman-whitney-wolfe-sexism-and-startup-creation-myths</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>The &amp;quot;Tinderslut&amp;quot;[1] comment says a lot about how Rad and Mateen view the women who use their app. It&amp;#x27;s consistent with Wolfe&amp;#x27;s claim in her complaint that Mateen told her it would be &amp;quot;slutty&amp;quot; to be a female Tinder co-founder, because it was an app people used to hook up.&lt;p&gt;As an aside, Mateen exhibits the textbook Madonna-whore dichotomy. To him, women are either someone he can see being a wife (Wolfe pre-breakup), or a whore&amp;#x2F;bimbo&amp;#x2F;slut (the women on his Instagram feed). When she rejected him, in classic fashion she went from the former bucket to the latter. This is a case study for a gender-studies paper.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tinderslut&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.urbandictionary.com&amp;#x2F;define.php?term=Tinderslut&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Tinder&apos;s Forgotten Woman: Whitney Wolfe, Sexism, and Startup Creation Myths</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-02/tinders-forgotten-woman-whitney-wolfe-sexism-and-startup-creation-myths</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dbloom</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s ironic that Mr. Rad went to such great lengths to keep his friend Mr. Mateen from facing the consequences of his behavior for so long. Because by putting his friend above his company, he ended up hurting both even more.&lt;p&gt;If Rad had just forced his friend Mateen to resign earlier on for &amp;quot;creative differences&amp;quot; before his behavior got out of hand, everyone -- including Mateen! -- would have been strictly better off.&lt;p&gt;And this definitely isn&amp;#x27;t the first time that this has happened (Rap Genius, and I&amp;#x27;m sure there are others too...)&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: Do your sexist, racist friends a favor by getting them out of your workplace.&lt;p&gt;(By the way, to be clear, I don&amp;#x27;t feel bad for any of these guys. They deserved what happened. But this sort of thing really shouldn&amp;#x27;t be happening again, and again, and again...)</text></comment>