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"I have so many wonderful men in my life, personally and professionally, who know exactly how to speak to women. You know, like we&amp;#39;re people. And I&amp;#39;m sure you do too. So when a big company, CEO, or random Kickstarter pops up with a completely tone-deaf statement, scheme, or business plan, I&amp;#39;m flummoxed and frustrated. This week was full of men with really misinformed ideas about how to speak to an audience of women.\nPinterestFacebookYeah. We&amp;#39;re not impressed.\nGoldman Sachs Gives Away Nail Files As a corporate sponsor of Harvard&amp;#39;s WECode conference&amp;#8212;an event for women interested in computer science&amp;#8212;investment firm Goldman Sachs, stuffed goodie bags for attendees with nail files and compact mirrors. While I love a great mani and a cool nail file as much as anyone and love &amp;#39;em as a giveaway for a fashion or beauty event, I can&amp;#39;t help but wonder if gift bags for guys at an engineering event would include manscaping tools? While on the surface a nail file isn&amp;#39;t that big of a deal, it just seems like an out-of-place thank-you case at a conference for future engineers and programmers. The folks at Goldman have since apologized for the misstep.\nAOL CEO Blames &amp;quot;Distressed Babies&amp;quot; for Benefits Reduction\nWhen Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL, was asked to clarify why the employee retirement plan had been cut in a company-wide conference call last week, he singled out two women who had &amp;quot;distressed babies&amp;quot; with health problems as cutting into the company&amp;#39;s bottom line. This was problematic for many reasons&amp;#8212;why call out two women and not employees who may have had a car accident or catastrophic health problem? And even more, why call out anyone? This was the point made by the mother of one of the &amp;quot;distressed&amp;quot; infants, whose child was born three months premature, in a piece for Slate (her husband is employed by AOL). She rightfully went on to say, &amp;quot;We experienced exactly the kind of unforeseeable, unpreventable medical crisis that any health plan is supposed to cover. Isn&amp;#39;t that the whole point of health insurance?&amp;quot; After a flood of support for this woman and her family&amp;#8212;and major backlash toward Armstrong&amp;#8212; the AOL CEO apologized (sensing a theme here?) and reversed the changes to the company&amp;#39;s 401k plan.\nGuy Kickstarts Period Panties\nThanks to a new Kickstarter campaign that has already raised more than $190,000, women can get panties that reinforce the stereotype that we&amp;#39;re crazy and PMS-y&amp;#8212;because of the way our bodies work. The idea comes from entrepreneur Anthony Hall, who explains that his girlfriend didn&amp;#39;t want to have sex during her period but didn&amp;#39;t want to tell him, and he thought period panties could become a warning to men to stay away. The grafitti-esque panties are emblazoned with phrases like &amp;quot;Shark Week&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Sour Puss.&amp;quot; Here&amp;#39;s the thing: If you&amp;#39;re sleeping with someone, especially if he&amp;#39;s your boyfriend or husband, you should feel comfortable saying &amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t feel well tonight&amp;quot; or even &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m just not really in the mood for sex right now&amp;quot; and not have to rely on your underwear to send the message."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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