That whole article is a new bullcrap millennial/hipster/20-something take on life. Just had a debate on the same thing with a female blogger today.
According to her to suddenly stop responding to text message, while in the middle of a polite text based conversation is perfectly acceptable and anyone who gets upset by that is an entitled misogynistic jerk. What I tried to convey to her is that it was bad manners.
As a 42 year old who grew up talking to people face to face or actually using the phone to talk on, if a person simply walked off from you in the middle of a conversation or hung up on you, it was considered rude. If you needed to stop the conversation (we are talking normal non-emergency here) you would say something like, "Hey its been great talking but I really have to get going" or something similar.
The fact you are carrying on the conversation via text messaging doesnt or shouldnt matter. The medium doesnt matter. Suddenly ignoring someone is rude, its bad manners. If you need to stop the conversation you are engaged in via text, you should do something similar to a phone conversation, and simply write "Hey got to go, boss yelling", or "Hey just pulled up to grocery store, Talk later".
This author is making the same argument. Because 90% of female waiters get sexually harassed on occasion by rude male patrons, this makes all polite business conversation "fake" and some form of "feudalism"? Expecting politeness is entitlement? Thats utterly absurd. Im an asshole by nature, but in conducting business other people shouldnt have to bear the burden of dealing with my normal abrasive personality, whether Im the waiter or the customer. In either case both parties should be polite.
I eat, therefore I am.