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It's funny how I agree with most of what the article has to say only be thrown by the conclusion that "Sadly, what happened to Adria Richards tells women they’r
by mercurial 14y ago
It's funny how I agree with most of what the article has to say only be thrown by the conclusion that "Sadly, what happened to Adria Richards tells women they’re only welcome in technology if they keep their mouths shut.", which clashes with the premise that the author would not attempt to "discern whether Richards was in the right or the wrong". Clearly, if her only tort is make herself heard, she must be in the right?
That said, there are clearly, in the "tech community" at large, a fair number of misogynistic cowards, which find it a lot easier to issue death threats from behind their keyboards. This does translate into "most of the tech community hates feminists", especially given how PyCon was actually trying to encourage women to get into tech.
- Ilmesnkie_Jones 14y agoThe trouble is that if she had shamed someone over a different kind of joke the backlash she would have gotten would probably been much less and of a radically different type. Women feel threatened because there is this wellspring of misogyny that gets drawn on regardless of whether what they say is right or wrong if they call someone/something out on it. It would be a lot different if the reaction to Richard's was less extreme and less misogynous in character.