[Haseeb left a long comment (sorry it does not seem to be possible to link directly to it) Here is an edited version (I have removed sentences but believe I have preserved some key points) To be clear I don&#x27;t know Haseeb and have never met him, but I thought his comments helped to put aspects of the original post in context. I don&#x27;t know that they are true but they are posted under his LinkedIn ID.]<p>Hey Faye, Someone linked me to your article that you posted on LinkedIn Pulse about me. First off, your article is completely fair. Though this took place about 6 months ago, it&#x27;s something that weighed heavily on me when it happened. I never reached out to you to discuss it personally, though I don&#x27;t think that was my fault. Let me explain.<p>[...]<p>That presentation was the first time that I realized I&#x27;d said something flagrantly sexist. I&#x27;d written the slides about 30 minutes before the presentation and never read them aloud to anyone. I immediately felt ashamed when I read them aloud, because I knew it was a sexist line that I should&#x27;ve immediately deleted and re-written. So when you pointed out that it was sexist, I hoped that the best way I could concede the point would be to acknowledge you were correct and fix it in front of everyone. After the presentation, I was pretty ashamed. I wasn&#x27;t really sure what to do about it, because I thought two things: one, I made a point to fix the presentation, so was that enough? Should I have done something else? Second, should I apologize to you personally? But would that be weird? You weren&#x27;t the only woman in the crowd; should I go apologize to every woman? Would that be even weirder? I wasn&#x27;t sure what to do, so I decided I&#x27;d wait for lecture feedback.<p>[...]<p>When Ned took me aside a few days later and told me about receiving an anonymous e-mail about it, it made me feel even worse. He didn&#x27;t tell me which female student it was, but his conversation had confirmed both that someone was strongly affected by this incident, and that I hadn&#x27;t done enough to address it. Ned did not tell me who you were. I told Ned to let whoever had sent that message know that I&#x27;d be happy to apologize to them personally if that was something they&#x27;d be open to. I also would&#x27;ve hoped to ask what I could do best to address it to the rest of the class. I never heard back. So the personalized apology you said never came, was because Ned rightly did not reveal who you were unless you wanted to communicate with me directly. 
Though I didn&#x27;t hear anything more about it, that incident affected me very strongly, and made me much more vigilant to be thoughtful about my language and what biases I bring to my teaching at App Academy. I decided that if I were ever to make a mistake like that again, the best thing to do would be to call it out and openly address it as a mistake after the lecture, and apologize explicitly to the students.<p>[...]<p>There&#x27;s a lot in your post I don&#x27;t agree with (no surprise there). I also don&#x27;t think Ned was in the wrong in any way here, and I think it&#x27;s unfair for you to paint him as having been complicit in anything untoward. But mostly I want to say, I&#x27;m sorry. I&#x27;m sorry both that this happened and made you feel unwelcome at App Academy, and also that I wasn&#x27;t able to make it right after it did. Sincerely, Haseeb