“The rebalancing of curation that you’ve suggested has happened in the last year would bring a more diverse audience and that foresight is to be applauded. But to curate people on anything other than writing quality is tokenism.”

The first sentence of this is perfect.

The second sentence suggests I suggested otherwise. I didn’t.

I suggested that Medium was dominated by men back in 2016 and that recently the curators have made sure to level the playing field by featuring more stories written by women about topics relating to women’s rights, etc.

Have you taken that into consideration?

The reason we are seeing more articles from women, too, is that the curators and editors of this platform want to feature more of those topics about the pay gap, oppression, and other things.

That’s one of the points I might not have made crystal clear. The future of Medium is women not only because we’re starting to pay attention to them more and actively feature grand writing, but also because Medium wants to feature HIGH QUALITY writing from women on topics that women are experts in.

I.E. how they feel at work when a male receives a promotion over them, the pay gap, etc. etc. etc.

That’s what I’m saying. I never wanted to suggest that we curate women just because they are women. I don’t think anybody wants that. I just think we need to give them a fair opportunity.

I wasn’t reading articles about the pay gap back in 2016 on Medium. I was reading about how to become 5,693,382 times more productive from Ben Hardy and Thomas Oppong (great writers, by the way), but now we are getting a tad more diversity in the TOPICS we’re reading about.

I never suggested we award women just for being women.