I haven't seen a single person say this, though. You should ask yourself why you are fabricating such a thing (and using dumb Twitter catch phrases instead of speaking English.)
As far as I know, she is the fourth member of this Analytics group, and I don't believe we had a dedicated thread dedicated to any of the other three, one way or another, let alone people trying to litigate everything they said on a podcast for 7 pages.
Having said that, hiring a woman IS a big deal, unfortunately, and I think it's wrong to ignore that. You can play the "her gender shouldn't matter" card, but the fact is that it HAS mattered for the last 100 years. You can't ignore that.
Sorry if I hit a sensitive spot, will try to be more clear.
People have been celebrating that we hired a woman, and it’s fine to mark that milestone, but it also seems that what happens here sometimes is people get accused misogyny just for questioning her work. The whole "Would you have had these questions if she was a man?" line, well, by the same token, we also wouldn't be celebrating a low level hire if this were a man, the effect of the spotlight legitimately goes both ways, people find things they like and dislike, and it seems unbalanced if noticing the good is celebrated and noticing the bad is sexist. Of course no one would be noticing those bad things if she weren't a woman, the same way we wouldn't be noticing the GOOD things if she weren't the first woman.
That double standard does feel like virtue signalling to me, whether you like that term or not, in cases like this it seems like an accurate description of the behaviour.
For the record, I've had no problem with the comments she made on social media, I'd been hoping she’d get hired (I believe I’m on record somewhere here for mentioning her as someone I liked along with Angela Ruggiero and Meghan Chayka), I had a great laugh at how she colourfully called for accountability on Benning, and I'm happy we’re investing in analytics.
Part of where I'm coming from is that yes, many women (and men) will rightly celebrate this milestone, but that’s not a monopoly on dictating how people should react to this. I’ve worked in politics and software (two areas where it’s been historically hard for women to excel) and when women have succeeded and become stars I’ve heard from some of them that their personal preference is to be recognized for their work and not be used as a symbol for other people’s agendas. Not that I’m accusing you of that, but taking a position to prefer recognizing work (good and bad) on merit and not focus primarily on their gender on the good or accuse anyone of sexism when they notice the bad shouldn’t suddenly upset people.
