Whitney Wolfe, Co-Founder of the popular social app Tinder, is reportedly suing over discrimination and sexual harassment. The suit is stemming from a former employee Justin Mateen, who is Chief Marketing Officer of Tinder. According to Wolfe, Mateen called Whitney several disrespectful names in public and in front of other colleagues. The tension between the two were said to derive from a previous relationship that ended over various accusations.
[ Slate Excerpt Via Jordan Weissmann ]
–“According to the suit, Wolfe began dating Mateen after he joined the company as her boss. But once their relationship soured, Mateen (allegedly) became jealous and sexually controlling, and picked up a habit of spewing sexist vitriol at her in public, all while Rad sat by and watched. This instance from the complaint is illustrative:
At a company party in Malibu on April 6, 2014, Ms. Wolfe noticed that Mr. Mateen was unwilling to say “hello” to her, while he eagerly greeted Ms. Wolfe’s friend, Kate Wilson, who accompanied her to the event. When she eventually asked him what was wrong, Mr. Mateen responded: “You’re a whore.” He accused her of being with a boy and insisted he knew all about what her “disgusting self had been up to.” He said this in front of Mr. Rad. He went on call her “a gold digger,” and “a disease” and “disgusting.” As Ms. Wolfe began to head toward the exit, she was accosted by Mr. Rad’s guest at the party who spat in her face. This was witnessed by Ms. Wilson. Mr. Mateen went on to ask Ms. Wilson if it were true, referring to Ms. Wolfe and her possible involvement with another man. Mr. Mateen’s younger brother repeatedly accused Ms. Wolfe of not being “a good girl.”
The suit also contains a whole bunch of abusive text messages Mateen allegedly sent to Wolfe, including one in which he accuses her of trying to “social climb with middle age Muslim pigs.”
Aside from the emotional violence, Wolfe alleges she was stripped of her status as a company co-founder explicitly because of her gender. First, she was kept out of the media.”–
Are you surprised a sexual harassment case is stemming from this social app? Kind of crazy the first major case is coming from it’s co-founder!
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