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Oh come on, she tweeted a photo. I don't think it was the right thing to do, but she didn't actually invade Poland or anything. You can murder people and get le
by Joeboy 14y ago
Oh come on, she tweeted a photo. I don't think it was the right thing to do, but she didn't actually invade Poland or anything. You can murder people and get less backlash than she's had.
- padraigm 14y agoAnd, importantly, much of the backlash has been quite sexist. Ultimately that's a huge problem in the tech community - when a man does something inappropriate it's seen as evidence that he's an asshole, but when a woman does something inappropriate it's seen as evidence that women are assholes.
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- jeltz 14y agoNot really. At least here on HN there was very little sexist backlash, most just concluded that she was an asshole.
- DanBC 14y ago"Very little" is provably wrong. All the threads had vile posts that were an embarrassment to the community. Luckily the very worst (which also tended to be from very new accounts) tended to be downvoted to hellban status, but there were some deeply unpleasant comments that got voted up.
- padraigm 14y agoDanBC is right about the comments here on HN, but I was talking about the response from the "tech community" at large in my original comment anyway.
- dfxm12 14y agoFWIW, I get the same type backlash (although in less volume) from people I beat online in Street Fighter III.
- Joeboy 14y agoPeople DOS your employers, call for you to be fired and offer bitcoin rewards for the best 'shopped picture of you being raped because you beat them at Street Fighter III? I find that unlikely.
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