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It also has a weird emphasis on their personal lives - particularly their gender: > Satrajit Chatterjee, a more senior researcher at Google, used the cover of
by samhw 4y ago
It also has a weird emphasis on their personal lives - particularly their gender:
> Satrajit Chatterjee, a more senior researcher at Google, used the cover of scientific debate to undermine the women personally, the employees claim. They spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss company matters. Multiple complaints about Chatterjee’s behavior toward the women were made to Google’s personnel department, and he received a written warning, some employees said, but he continued to criticize the women’s results.
I half expect it to carry on: "The male researchman directed his critical male gaze at the delicate ladylike handwritten-in-flowery-pink-biro output of the female women researcheresses.."
I mean, I know I'm out of step with the zeitgeist in finding this irrelevant and patronising, but come on. Female researchers deserve to be treated not as fragile novelties but as regular professionals. Implying that a male researcher launched some kind of inappropriate sexed attack by criticising their work is thoroughly bizarre to me.
- UncleEntity 4y ago> Implying that a male researcher launched some kind of inappropriate sexed attack by criticising their work is thoroughly bizarre to me. They’re not implying it they are outright claiming that was his motivation for not letting it drop before he got fired. Most reasonable people would just stop when told “dude, you’re gonna get fired if you keep it up” but some people just can’t do that for whatever reason. Either way they decided back in the 70s women don’t have to deal with harassment as part of their job and whatever your opinion on how this is enforced it is pure and simple fact you will be fired over a corporation going to the mat to defend you against accusations related to this. Well, unless you’re a CEO of one of the Silicon Valley unicorns then you can do whatever you want.
- samhw 4y agoI think there are two separate threads running through this. One is his academic criticism of their work through the academic publishing process. I hope no one would describe that as 'harassment', irrespective of how much his academic output focused on challenging their work. The other is his extremely poor and possibly slightly autistic Slack behaviour, fixating on his disapproval of their work and repeatedly bringing it up in even the most marginally related contexts. That part I would agree rises, or at least arguably rises, to the level of harassment.