> I am more interested that in all the backlash, I haven't seen anyone trash Valleywag I see most people taking Valleywag/Gawker being trash as a forgone concl

> I am more interested that in all the backlash, I haven't seen anyone trash Valleywag I see most people taking Valleywag/Gawker being trash as a forgone conclusion. Take tptacek's top comment in this discussion two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6977412 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6977412 Anyway, I don't think this issue is as simple as women being pushed away from STEM fields at a young age. The gender discrepancies seen in different undergraduate STEM programs don't quite support that idea; women have a much stronger showing in the natural sciences than engineering or computer science. There may be influences at a young age in play here (I strongly suspect that there are) but it seems to me that it is not as general as STEM.