Thomas's questionable logic becomes even more problematic when this portrayal of Culver is shown to be part of a pattern. In addition to Tara Hunt and Chris Messina, one informant told me that the career of Ariel Waldman, a social media consultant and blogger, had been launched when technologist Tantek Çelik "discovered" her. Blogger Penelope Trunk wrote a post calling business strategist Glenda Bautista a "gold-digger" for her relationship with WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, although Mullenweg achieved his success only after he and Bautista began dating (Trunk backpedaled once Bautista's considerable professional accomplishments were pointed out). In all these instances, women's accomplishments were attributed to their involvement with men; I did not witness a single instance of this with men who were mentored by other men.

Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, loc. 704