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Seeing the USA tech sector from the very skewed point of view of Hacker News stories, I'm horrified by the apparent abundance of women like Ellen Pao or Julie A
by HelloNurse 11y ago
Seeing the USA tech sector from the very skewed point of view of Hacker News stories, I'm horrified by the apparent abundance of women like Ellen Pao or Julie Ann Horvath, or much worse, and by the terrifying threat they represent even for men who don't make the mistake of hiring them. It's like camping in a forest that is home to a man-eating tiger, completely unarmed.
When hiring, or even contacting, a woman is more dangerous than a bad business decision, any uncomfortably immature and sexist "boys' club" becomes better, in all practical and moral senses, than attempting to be nice to predators and sociopaths and being punished for that.
Socially responsible people would try to avoid driving the "enemy" into justified paranoia, because (as the linked article argues) everybody loses. I'm afraid there's not enough social pressure to behave normally.