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The remark:

At an Uber staff meeting earlier in the day, Arianna Huffington, another Uber board member, said one woman on a board often leads to more women joining a board. Mr. Bonderman responded “that it’s much more likely to be more talking.”

Seems ironic that Arianna's own site posted this:

Biological Evidence May Support Idea That Women Talk More Than Men, Study Says http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/women-talk-more-tha...

Is it not possible to say anything anymore without someone being offended?

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If you searched for a contradictory HuffPo article for everything Arianna Huffington said, she would be the most ironic person on earth.

There's two things I'd like to say:

1) The media rarely characterizes the actual underlying science correctly.

In this case, the journal entry [0] and an author of the paper herself[1] characterize it as simply a "difference" and are careful to not concretely link it to human-observable behavioral differences (such as "Women talk more", which the media is more than happy to expand upon to clickbaity levels in order to get more ad revenue).

2) History has shown that science, which strives for impartial and unbiased results, often has its results applied by biased and partial people who have agendas. Said agendas may include justification of the current status quo.

In my opinion, keeping these two points in mind is just an exercise of healthy critical thinking. When applied here, I reject your idea that this Huffington article justifies Bonderman's behavior as being unoffensive.

[0] http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=128545&Cult... [1] https://www.sfn.org/Press-Room/News-Release-Archives/2013/La...

In my experience, women generally do talk more. Is that an offensive statement, or is it the context of David Bonderman making that statement at an Uber staff meeting?

If you can't say anything without someone getting offended, maybe your communications stack is out of date.

If you can't listen to anything without being offended, maybe your thin skinned and need to toughen up a bit.

Unsupported by the facts.

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