What I find incredible is how easily it was for this dude to manipulate the feminists he needed in order to get some legitimacy.
All she needed was a little attention and lip service paid towards her cause and she was willing to throw her support behind him. Goes to show that attention is the most valuable thing you can give a woman.
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So Goldberg set out courting his skeptics. He published a sheepish mea culpa that absorbed the arguments of his critics, told reporters that the site’s female editors—led by Entertainment Weekly vet Kate Ward and former HuffPost Women editor Margaret Wheeler Johnson—are really responsible for the site’s success, and began reaching out to female influencers for off-the-record coffees and drinks. “Bryan was not the first person on my list of people to talk to” when he reached out last year, Sklar told me. So he bought her audience: He pledged $200 to a Feministing fundraiser in exchange for a consulting session with Sklar. “I laughed,” Sklar admits. “I was like, ‘Well done.’ ”
All she needed was a little attention and lip service paid towards her cause and she was willing to throw her support behind him. Goes to show that attention is the most valuable thing you can give a woman.