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I don’t think it was sexist. It’s just standard power based behavior. Isn’t specific to tech. Have seen that sort of behavior from people in power of all gender
by babesh 9y ago
I don’t think it was sexist. It’s just standard power based behavior. Isn’t specific to tech. Have seen that sort of behavior from people in power of all genders and ethnicities in the Valley for as long as I’ve been in the industry.
Examples:
- It doesn’t matter what’s in the contract. I have a lot more money than you and can sue you to oblivion.
- Tell me what to say to his boss when the boss asks me a question.
- If you have two people and one has more seniority and the other is better, who do you give the better assignment to? The one with seniority. That’s why I’m leaving.
- fapjacks 9y agoI completely agree, but (sort of incidentally) I do wish that there was some recognition that the "tech industry" is not one specific group of people. Even at the most basic level, there are the hackers, and then there are the MBAs that flocked in when the money started flowing. Two completely disparate subcultures that are lumped in together under one banner, and not only lumped together that way by outsiders, but by "the tech industry" itself.
- jaggederest 9y agoCertainly not. There's a reason people say power corrupts. Nothing especially to do with intersectionality - it's the power, not who is using it on whom. The amoral use of power to further your own agenda is where excessive political, social, economic, or religious authority always ends. It's classically antisocial behavior. Machiavellianism, psychopathy, sadism, and narcissism.