- 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