This incident confirms tech is indeed a hostile place for women full of insecure men, who will grasp at anything to retain privilege. And women should be right

This incident confirms tech is indeed a hostile place for women full of insecure men, who will grasp at anything to retain privilege. And women should be rightfully wary of all these fragile men who will watch them like hawks looking for any excuse to confirm their bias. The kind of comments these threads are full of are a shocking reflection of a complete lack of understanding of history, sexism, privilege and women. But the root cause is some people have convinced themselves they are so 'special' and 'superior' only a tiny 'approved' elite can do the jobs they do and anyone who diminishes this supremacist insecure identity will pay with bad science. The irony is all these self appointed 'geniuses' who can 'decide' all by themselves about their own skill level and 'lowering the bar' do not have anything remotely approaching science or measure to explain how they came to this fruity conclusion about themselves and others. This is beyond absurd. This is out of control self importance and hubris fuelled by SV culture and is as far away from rational scientific discourse as any self obsessed victimhood peddling supremacist.