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My Cousin's son is borderline-autistic and antisocial. He loves Anime and I see him and his friends regularly posting sexist, bullying, and other horrible comm

My Cousin's son is borderline-autistic and antisocial. He loves Anime and I see him and his friends regularly posting sexist, bullying, and other horrible comments on Facebook (including many 4chan Memes). Many people use this as proof that the tech industry and men are sexist. In reality, it's mostly the work of teenagers with too much time on their hand and mentally ill individuals. I wish we could stop lumping in an entire industry and gender for the actions of a few that may not even be in the industry at all.

r_smart 10y ago
Yeah, it's always felt weird to me that there's so much hand-wringing about this stuff when it's clearly the work, in large part, of children being edge-lords. Maybe it's just my perspective from playing WoW a lot back in the day (an amazing number of children played that game), but I just can't bring myself to take this stuff seriously. I think there's a tendency to make basic assumption that the anonymous person you're talking to is roughly your age or older and sane. I can't imagine anything further from the truth.