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The Atlantic: The Problem with Women Who XO at Work XO has surfaced in the digital correspondence of everyone from Arianna Huffington to Nora Ephron. Wendy Williams, the talk-show host, says she wishes she could stop using it, but just can’t. Anne-Marie Slaughter—foreign-policy wonk, Princeton professor, and she who still can’t have it all—doesn’t xo, but knows several professional women who do. In Diane Sawyer’s newsroom, staffers say, the anchor uses xo so frequently that its omission can spark a major panic.  How a once-intimate sign-off is feminizing the workplace, for better or worse.

The Atlantic: The Problem with Women Who XO at Work

XO has surfaced in the digital correspondence of everyone from Arianna Huffington to Nora Ephron. Wendy Williams, the talk-show host, says she wishes she could stop using it, but just can’t. Anne-Marie Slaughter—foreign-policy wonk, Princeton professor, and she who still can’t have it all—doesn’t xo, but knows several professional women who do. In Diane Sawyer’s newsroom, staffers say, the anchor uses xo so frequently that its omission can spark a major panic. 

How a once-intimate sign-off is feminizing the workplace, for better or worse.

(via theatlantic)

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    Good article. Personally, I would not ever put xo or similar things in correspondences intended to be serious or...
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    “Why, then, has xo become such a fashionable accessory for women? Why, after all the strides we’ve made to be taken...
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    Again. I saw XO in this post and immediately thought of an individual with Turner Syndrome. Send help.
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