Tech Sexism Controversies

from the article looks like everything started just after the author posted a link on the slack channel. maybe just avoid posting this articles on slack. you are supposed to work not to rise a fire. if you had problem about sexism in the company you should leave/complain and not trying to fix something chitchatting on slack.

It was completely in her right to turn around and tell the guys to shut up or bring it to the attention of the organisers. However, I don't think that was her intention at all. Her intention was to gain more mileage out of this. She took an issue about a couple of guys being immature and made it a sexism issue.Based on her previous tweets (the now famous penis joke that she made, a picture playing cards against humanity), I find it difficult to believe she was offended by a dongle joke. I thi

Wow, lots of hysteria. I was hoping to find a comment that said something like the following:It sucks that things like this still happen. I've seen or heard about a few stories like this and it's heartbreaking to think that the industry I love can cause such pain to people. Worse still is the thought that these incidents punish everyone, from the women who are turned away to other, less risky fields, to the managers who struggle to find competent female hires, to the other men who get unfairl

This is the same sexist attitude that got that google employee fired. I suggest you stay off HN and stick to TD with these ideas.

Here is an article that I found on TechCrunch. Posting the link here just for sharing. No, I am still trying to make out what is happening, so I hold no opinion for now.http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes...

Hi rmrfrmrf. I went through your recent comments. By and large, they're highly inflammatory. Ease off on the vitriol and your life might get a bit easier.To be precise, these are the comments that I find inflammatory:> Because anti-woman and anti-black hate groups are trying to game HN with mass account creation and upvote spam.> SendGrid would have come out stronger from weathering the storm as a defender and promoter of women in tech. Instead, they're giving in to terrorism

I'm afraid some will look at this as an issue of the fickle HN crowd never being satisfied, but it really is more about exercising rationality. Firstly, nobody really had to publicize this ridiculously miniscule episode, as it was sorted out responsibly without the attention. It's great for women to see how many people rally to their inclusion in tech, but there's a not-too-fine line between displays of inclusion and Joyent's response. This sort of response is polarizing and

What an empty, canned criticism. Just off the top of my head: when Susan Rigetti wrote her exposé of sexual harassment at Uber, HN was full of comments supporting her and condemning Uber. HN has been a locus of support for women and minorities who suffer genuine harassment and discrimination.

An individual states a strong position in a forum unrelated to their employment and the offended party considers it then reasonable to paint the whole company that person works for as friendly to "hostile brogrammers".Quote from original story:"that more people know that there are still unfair and harsh consequences for having the audacity to be a woman on the internet, who has opinions, and says them in no uncertain terms."So, apparently it is OK to have strong opin

How about we take it a step forward and say "woman caused two developers to be fired"?Or even better."A person at a tech conference caused two developers to be fired".That way we can judge the situation within its own context, rather than letting our own affiliations or views bias us.