I think it just comes down to a lot of unmarried people with strong pair bonding drives making sense of actual external pressure to continue
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Replying to @dakami @andreasdotorg
I don't think I understand what you're saying here.. drives to continue what?
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Replying to @starsandrobots @andreasdotorg
I'm just saying a lot of the emotional beats of relationships that produce children, are exhibited in relationships that produce companies.
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It's not particularly metaphorical, or even gendered really.
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"Are you dating your cofounder" is unquestionably ignorant, of course.
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I've been thinking about why this bothers me so much —
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and I think that to me it feels like it's a short beat from "people of opposite genders working together must also be dating" ..
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.. to Mike Pence' refusal to eat dinner with a woman 1-1 being reasonable. Same basic assumption at play.
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Replying to @starsandrobots @andreasdotorg
I don't know. Pence's position is so fractally toxic,literally declaring women must not get a chance to build alliances with him because sex
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Replying to @dakami @andreasdotorg
Can't a man recruit a woman to work on technical projects at a coffee shop without the assumption of subtext as well?
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Just to be clear: he totally can. I mis-judged the situation from your description, because it reminded me of a similar one I witnessed...
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between two theater people, which clearly was flirting and not business.
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