your treatise on nyc was amazing to read

i'm interning there this summer and hoping things can play out for me to still go

this is an incredible resource

this is incredibly true

feel free to start sharing those "small market" ideas haha

After they've been vetted of course ;)

It'll be interesting to see where this goes. Vox Media has built up some really good brands and I'd hate to see this drag them down. Odd that they aren't folding related publications, as they're definitely going to have some competing internal publications until they do. Makes sense for the employees though, probably, to retain their own editorial style on each side of things

I'd say op's point stands regardless

Ok, but he explicitly tried to frame it as men "lacking empathy" for women, when it's just another case of someone out of touch with the target demographic.

I'm a woman, and this raises another point. People get really, really weird about this. Especially if you try to talk about it.

Also, women aren't just a target demographic. We're 50.5% of the population. And that's kinda the point. This isn't just inside baseball --- it's literally half of all humanity!

women are a target demographic, just like men are a target demographic. just because its a large demographic doesn't mean it isn't a demographic.

noun: demographic: a portion of a population, especially considered as consumers.

literally a demographic.

Not to brush this off in particular, but there are quite a few target demographics that are more than "half of all humanity". For example, people who use toilets.

"Maybe with how important software is becoming in the economy this is the new normal"

It is definitely the new normal.

it's a matter of how hard you're pushing your patreon, that's what I've seen from Youtubers w/ successful Patreons along with good perks