Star Simpson

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

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

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" ..

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

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

I think it's ok to see two people interested in eachother, think it might be romantic, and then update your opinion to professional.

(You did, after all.). What's not ok at all is thinking because it could be romantic, it can't be professional.

At no point did I take them to be having coffee romantically..