She is a person who thinks that Adria Richards of donglegate did nothing wrong.<p>She is public friends with a group of high functioning SJWs (and for this reason stay the fuck away from them unless you want to be character assassinated - they are throwing that around a lot right now) who think GitHub of all places is the pinnacle of misogynistic, explicitly female hating culture. If that's GitHub then truly tech is doomed, but then again this is SJW world where any mostly male environment is a hostile work environment, where things like libertarianism is hated because they don't value equality of opportunity and instead demand equality of outcome irregardless of merit. They think that feelings, that status matters more than results... you know, building things, making the world a better place one little thing at a time instead of always being on complaining.<p>Internet trolls being assholes has nothing to do with sexism. People who feed the trolls, who are male and female, get burned. Let the idiots burn. And yeah I've been called a gender traitor by the SJW idiots because I don't agree with their idea that feminism = females.
For so long I tried to convince others (even females) that sexism and casual sexism wasn't a thing in software development.<p>I tried to project an image of guys who were introverted and shy around women, and that so called "brogrammers" were in the extreme minority.<p>But those same women I tried to convince gave me concrete examples, sometimes even in the companies I worked for. Things I might have ignored or looked past were seen in a different light from their perspective.<p>When you are in the minority somewhere, even small things are personal and cut deeper. A fact that many in the tech industry seemed to have forgotten from high school, if they were there in the time before being a computer geek was considered cool.<p>As I said in the related thread on this event, let's stop with the victim blaming and personal insults when someone makes claims of being harassed. We pride ourselves on being intelligent and tolerant. Let's act like it and put down those who don't live by it.
I am against harassment of any kind (race, sex, looks, etc), however as far as I can see, there has been no harassment...<p>All I ask for is evidence.<p>If there was some evidence I could believe it, all we have is someones (clearly hot headed) claims. I have worked with many women programmers in school and on the job and have never seen sexism. I have however heard multiple woman complain about not having enough women in tech, as well as complain about sexism.<p>Yet, they always seem to be treated fairly. If women did not complete her job on time she was forced to stay after, same with the men. If a woman didn't know how to answer a question she missed the points, same with a man.<p>Further, I fail to see any justification for sexism. Not only is there no evidence, but there is no reasoning as to WHY they were sexist (besides giving her bad performance reviews, which may or may not be deserved).
I just tried to submit this. Too slow, as usual.<p>Excerpt:<p><i>She's not alone in her frustration. Last fall, a community member of GitHub's code base, Ruby on Rails, blogged about being sexually harassed by her own boss while attending a Ruby conference. She later deleted her post due to receiving an onslaught of victim-blaming, rape, and death threats.</i><p>Yeah, there's a lot that needs to change. Sigh. A lot.
I see two basic solutions to these issues:<p><pre><code> 1. Purge every company of assholes
2. Allow complete freedom of association
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#1 is hard to implement because assholes are everywhere. #2 is the obvious solution, and in fact it is so obvious that Julie Ann Horvath's actions implicitly endorse it—don't work for companies filled with assholes.<p>Alas, the obvious solution is illegal under US federal law. Asshole-filled companies are required by law to hire the kind of people assholes love to harass. In other words, the very laws designed to promote the interests of asshole-targets guarantee that they will come into contact with assholes. (Medical geeks might recognize this as <i>iatrogenesis</i>.)<p>Of course, there's always:<p><pre><code> 3. Convert all assholes to non-assholes
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This can be considered a special case of #1, and would be the best of all possible worlds. Indeed, a great deal of energy goes into achieving it. But it essentially reduces to "eliminate the existence of assholes". It doesn't take a particularly subtle grasp of human nature to understand why this doesn't appear to be working.<p>In sum, the obvious solution is illegal and the desirable solution doesn't work. Is it any wonder this conflict seems never-ending?
Obviously I don't know what happened there, but after scrolling through her twitter, well… My imagination shows me somebody, be it male or female, I cannot really like or sympathize. Maybe it's more about personality than "sexism" sometimes?
It makes me sad that a community that I'm part of and am passionate about has such negative behavior towards female members. I think it would be extremely positive for the developer community as a whole if there were more female developers, but I'm not sure how we go from the male centric community that exists today to one that accepts female members as equal peers. I'd like to think that the dev team at my startup would be welcoming and accepting of a female dev, but the truth is I have no idea, because we only ever had one female developer interview, and she had only a rudimentary understanding of HTML and JS, so we did not hire her.<p>Does anyone out there in the startup community have a more integrated dev team? And if so how did you attract female devs and guide the team culture to make them feel welcome and accepted?
I hope GitHub issues a public apology and a statement that can help frame her accusations and bring more light to what actually occurred. The article unfortunately did not offer the specifics of what happened, but it is unfortunate and unacceptable that gender continues to cause conflicts in workplaces for our industry.
This article is leaving me really confused if she is/was an employee of Github, and if it/she is talking about sexism at Github the company -- or in the "Github community" (meaning the collection of people using github I guess?)