- the point of the post was not to prove that there is sexism in technology, but rather to show how sexism can drive away women
- that the existence of sexism in tech is one of the assumptions of the article, which is pretty reasonable given:
- sexism exists everywhere and there's no reason to think tech would be excluded
- the small number of women in tech
- the numerous other women who work in tech who have /said/ they've experienced sexism
- that she worked with these people for however long, and there's obviously numerous other encounters she's had with them that aren't relayed here because that wasn't the point of the article
- that just because men have a problem as well as women doesn't mean women cannot have that problem worse
- that there is definitely a range of social responses that are culturally permissible for men and not women, and that tech workers are not some sort of hyper-enlightened übermenschen who have utterly cast off the shackles of their culture and now see everything with perfect clarity
I'm not saying that we can know for sure that there was sexism involved here, but to call thinking that, "entirely fallacious and baseless" is complete and utter bullshit.
Very few if any articles on dealing with situations such as disease need to prove the existence of the disease. It seemed to me that the existence was pre-assumed given the need to consult with others before the meeting. This looks to be the story of the end and not the beginning.
There's nothing gender-specific about that. Men also have personality conflicts at work and are subject to being called out for over-reacting or displays of bad temper. Sometimes such conflicts are isolated and quickly resolved, other times they fester and create a headache for the team's supervisor. I've been in all these situations during my career, as have most people I know. The writer seems to think that men never need or want to consult their friends about how to handle problems in the workplace, which is just nonsense.
- the point of the post was not to prove that there is sexism in technology, but rather to show how sexism can drive away women
- that the existence of sexism in tech is one of the assumptions of the article, which is pretty reasonable given:
- sexism exists everywhere and there's no reason to think tech would be excluded
- the small number of women in tech
- the numerous other women who work in tech who have /said/ they've experienced sexism
- that she worked with these people for however long, and there's obviously numerous other encounters she's had with them that aren't relayed here because that wasn't the point of the article
- that just because men have a problem as well as women doesn't mean women cannot have that problem worse
- that there is definitely a range of social responses that are culturally permissible for men and not women, and that tech workers are not some sort of hyper-enlightened übermenschen who have utterly cast off the shackles of their culture and now see everything with perfect clarity
I'm not saying that we can know for sure that there was sexism involved here, but to call thinking that, "entirely fallacious and baseless" is complete and utter bullshit.
edit: gosh darn markdown