There are always going to be disturbed individuals. The important thing is they are recognized as such and not diffused into the male collective. The shocking

There are always going to be disturbed individuals. The important thing is they are recognized as such and not diffused into the male collective. The shocking thing for men to quickly realize from all the women speaking out is they are relating eerily similar stories and there seems to be a rather large number of disturbed men than one would have thought. The problem in tech more than other professions is there are far too many self important individuals who will latch on to anything to think less of others to maintain their inflated sense of self. The whole mythlogy of 10x engineer, genius programmer accentuates this. This is not just a job, its identity. To these neanderthals the idea that women have brains as good as anyone's has not 'registered' and its convenient to think of women as lesser then them and their place as 'unearned'. They lash out in any way they can, abusive and agressive behavior anonymously, and via politics and put downs in the office. The internet has opened the floodgates for mentally disturbed indivuals to launch persistent and dedicated rampages against individuals with zero risk and consequences. I think it important to distinguish between normal people and those clearly struggling to come to terms to their social environment. It's even more important for organizations to quickly identify such individuals and get rid of them. Once there are consequences people fall in line. Only zero tolerance works for bigotry.