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It sounds like the ArenaNet community is happy that talking about one's experience as a female developer is punished more harshly than being openly racist. That

• mrguyorama 8y ago
  She didn't "talk about one's experience as a female developer", she implied a semi-important figure in the community was interacting in bad faith, when such a conclusion is non-obvious. She colored her view of the interaction with her own prejudices, and responded disrespectfully because of that. That's unprofessional to do
  • chc 8y ago
    No, she didn't. She said that a semi-important member of the community was not an experienced video game writer, which is accurate as far as I can tell. She also said that this was an example of the trend of people who aren't experts in a field trying to correct women who are experts. Assuming he is in fact not a video game writer, this is also factually true. She didn't suggest bad faith, just that the behavior is irritating.
    • mrguyorama 8y ago
      >She also said that this was an example of the trend of people who aren't experts in a field trying to correct women who are experts. That is also factually true This is true of non-women, in any field
      • chc 8y ago
        Sure, it happens to men as well, albeit less often. That doesn't make it any less irritating for women. And remember, the other person who got fired was a male colleague who simply pointed out that he didn't have to deal with that much nonsense and he didn't think she should either.
• lainga 8y ago
  I don't see an ungood there, comrade.