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> but there’s plenty of high functioning teams in different domains headed by leaders who communicate like Torvalds

Maybe in the past. It is not acceptable now.

A lot of men from the "old days" are finding that their table thumping "plain talking" (obscenity shouting) ways are getting them sidelined and ignored.

Good.

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Some of us would love to work on a team like this. It would be nice to have the option. Your definition of "acceptable" might not actually result in teams that can take on the big challenges we face as a species as men who did find this kind of thing acceptable retire out of the workforce.

We might all die but at least no one's feelings would be hurt, no matter what they did or didn't do.

I am only half joking. It's a good thing no one is being forced to work with Linus. People really need to keep that in mind

If "We've always done it this way and it's a risk to do it differently" was the argument that carried the day, few of us would have to worry about these questions at all because we'd never have gotten out from under feudalism.

> Some of us would love to work on a team like this. It would be nice to have the option

Be the change you wish to see.

You're literally responding to an Amy Klobuchar cite, with a sweeping implication that being a jerk in the workplace is a "men" thing. Wow.

Kamala Harris too: https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-former-staffer...

It is not really a competition!

Anybody can be like that, anybody at all. And in my opinion it is a very good thing it is going out of fashion!

Touché

If a person works best in this fashion, who are you to say it is unacceptable?

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