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It's not entirely clear to me what prompted the “Mack truck’s worth of vile, misogynistic, sexist comments and pictures” that caused Sierra to change her point
by sltkr 14y ago
It's not entirely clear to me what prompted the “Mack truck’s worth of vile, misogynistic, sexist comments and pictures” that caused Sierra to change her point of view (after twenty years of positive experience!) and how exactly it relates to the Tech industry?
I can appreciate the argument that just because you haven't personally experienced sexism that doesn't mean it doesn't occur, but the logical equivalent of that is that you can't point to a few people's (subjective interpretation of their) experiences to conclude that sexism is prevalent in the tech industry.
- autarch 14y agohttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6499095.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6499095.stm is one article on what happened to her. It was pretty awful.
- Tichy 14y agoThat sounds as if it was several people attacking her? I would have thought it was just a disturbed individual? Also how come "prominent bloggers" were hosting the attacks - presumably she means comments on blogs that were not removed in a timely manner?
- drumdance 14y agoAs I recall a couple of the bloggers themselves were attacking her, not just commenters.
- Tichy 14y agoWow, that's pretty extreme. I'll look into that. But I don't think the bloggers were doing stuff like the picture with the noose? I can imagine some gave stupid comments to the situation, though. Anyway, this actually makes me curious.
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- kevinconroy 14y agoCoding Horror has a write up on what happened, why it matters, and why you should be mad as hell that an incredible voice like Kathy's was silenced: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/03/death-threats-intimidation-and-blogging.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/03/death-threats-intim...