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Comment by tptacek | Hacker News Reader

I'm married to someone who went on an IT job interview and was shown a naked picture of the hiring manager, while he was interviewing her.

That's one of the stories I'm at liberty to share.

Happy to cancel you out!

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Yeah, I am married to someone who got death threats over email for daring to start a group promoting women's participation in free sofware projects. So never mind that most men in the industry aren't like that, a small proportion of toxic people still make for a poisonous environment.

And this is before we start quantifying how small that proportion really is, and how negative other aspects of discrimination can be. Death threats and sexual harassment are only the showy, extreme points of a very wide continuum of discrimination.

This is incredibly important. It cannot be repeated often enough, because people seem to keep forgetting it:

  that *most* men in the industry aren't like that,

and

  a small proportion of toxic people still make for a 
  poisonous environment.

Yikes. Maybe it was this guy? http://onion.com/cGj5Xy

Am I supposed to find some clever cat picture to reply to you with?

Would have been better than the snark. Lack of contribution to me is not license to reply with even less contribution.

"I'm sorry. I can't help but be amused that some opinion on a forum somewhere has made your life a less happy place. The tiniest of my violins mourns your loss."

There was more substance to that comment than what you quoted.

Jesus Christ this moron will never get it. He thinks it's all about him.

This is a serious topic, and you trying to make light of the situation is just absolutely horrible.

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