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I like to build things. Glider pilot. Eyes bigger than bookshelf.

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    1. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots 12 Apr 2017
      Replying to @dakami @andreasdotorg

      Only when the partners are of opposite genders for some reason. Such straight stereotyping.

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    2. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots 12 Apr 2017
      Replying to @starsandrobots @dakami @andreasdotorg

      Is it any wonder that "pattern-matching" results in endless boy bands?

      1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
    3. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots 12 Apr 2017
      Replying to @starsandrobots @dakami @andreasdotorg

      People used to ask me whether I was dating my male cofounder. It was awkward not least bc I had two male cofounders (both w long term gfs)

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    4. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots 12 Apr 2017
      Replying to @starsandrobots @dakami @andreasdotorg

      I am so over the "cofounding is like dating/marriage" metaphors. You know what it's like? It's like a business partnership. Which women have

      1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes
    5. Dan Kaminsky‏Verified account @dakami 12 Apr 2017
      Replying to @starsandrobots @andreasdotorg

      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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    6. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots 12 Apr 2017
      Replying to @dakami @andreasdotorg

      I don't think I understand what you're saying here.. drives to continue what?

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    7. Dan Kaminsky‏Verified account @dakami 12 Apr 2017
      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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    8. Dan Kaminsky‏Verified account @dakami 12 Apr 2017
      Replying to @dakami @starsandrobots @andreasdotorg

      It's not particularly metaphorical, or even gendered really.

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    9. Dan Kaminsky‏Verified account @dakami 12 Apr 2017
      Replying to @dakami @starsandrobots @andreasdotorg

      "Are you dating your cofounder" is unquestionably ignorant, of course.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    10. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots 12 Apr 2017
      Replying to @dakami @andreasdotorg

      I've been thinking about why this bothers me so much —

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      Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots 12 Apr 2017
      Replying to @starsandrobots @dakami @andreasdotorg

      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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        1. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots 12 Apr 2017
          Replying to @starsandrobots @dakami @andreasdotorg

          .. to Mike Pence' refusal to eat dinner with a woman 1-1 being reasonable. Same basic assumption at play.

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        2. Dan Kaminsky‏Verified account @dakami 12 Apr 2017
          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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        3. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots 12 Apr 2017
          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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        4. andreasdotorg‏ @andreasdotorg 12 Apr 2017
          Replying to @starsandrobots @dakami

          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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        5. andreasdotorg‏ @andreasdotorg 12 Apr 2017
          Replying to @andreasdotorg @starsandrobots @dakami

          between two theater people, which clearly was flirting and not business.

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        1. Dan Kaminsky‏Verified account @dakami 12 Apr 2017
          Replying to @starsandrobots @andreasdotorg

          D.C. Culture has this super interesting way of dealing with this -- "work husband" is a thing out there.

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