ok, just to start let me acknowledge that sexism is pervasive in tech as well as elsewhere. but maybe Silicon Valley is awful to everyone. the reality distorti

ok, just to start let me acknowledge that sexism is pervasive in tech as well as elsewhere. but maybe Silicon Valley is awful to everyone. the reality distortion field that sustains the notion that these people are special, in fact gods among men, twists the normal social contract into something unrecognizable. put that in the context of a fairly sexist society, add a healthy dose of people who are in tech because they couldn't hack it in the normal world, and voila