Ask some women developers about their experiences (as many as possible). Even if this particular person/memo/fracas is overblown, it has obviously become an ava

Ask some women developers about their experiences (as many as possible). Even if this particular person/memo/fracas is overblown, it has obviously become an avatar for the issue at large: discrimination and sexism. I've been seeing the stories from my software dev friends who happen to be women, and it's shocking that the same dumb shit is happening in 2017. "Wow, YOU'RE a developer?" "Hey, will she sit next to me?" etc etc etc etc. So the memo strikes a nerve. That doesn't make it right or wrong, I'm not saying his being fired is this or that. What I'm saying is that it's not nothing: a lot of human beings who happen to be women and who happen to be software developers have been trying to fight these insane gender stereotypes that somehow are still being perpetuated.