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> Somehow, most of the women I know don't complain about harassment much. It does not seem productive to trivialize and disregard people's issues only because
by rifung 9y ago
> Somehow, most of the women I know don't complain about harassment much.
It does not seem productive to trivialize and disregard people's issues only because we haven't witnessed them ourselves.
Indeed this attitude is actually why an internal group where people can report sexist, racist, and other inappropriate behavior is called "Yes at Google", because so many people thought this kind of thing doesn't happen, or at least it wouldn't at Google.
- tbrownaw 9y agoIt does not seem productive to trivialize and disregard people's issues only because we haven't witnessed them ourselves. There's a difference between trivializing or disregarding particular complaints, vs questioning just how representative they are of the broader situation.
- xyzzyz 9y agoyes-at-google had some really ugly stuff when they started out, but then everyone run out of stashed stories, and it's been almost exclusively petty issues for the past few weeks, and most of which look like people acting in good faith, just genuinely unaware of the impact having on the reporting person. Looks like the really bad stuff doesn't actually happen all that often. Thing is, life in general is filled with stuff that makes people uneasy, but you always have to judge the intent before you can condemn the behavior. The y-a-g format is completely opposite of this.