An Open Letter to Women in Technology

To the submitter:

I'm no more a fan of poseur Marxist rants than you are, but HN submissions should generally be something worth reading, not every tumblr-level rant you want to shine a light on.

Strangely enough, this is very similar to http://www.sugarrae.com/rants-in-bitchland/women-tech-confer... , except this one takes a militant slant.

What people forget about Gandhi is that he refused to condemn actively militant actions by others.

@mdisraeli

Rae is angry that organizations enforce quotas-- this stance is what feminism might call "backlash" against the movement: that the people working for change ARE the cause of the problem.

"...backlash posits the women's liberation movement as the source of many of the problems alleged to be plaguing women..." -Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Shanley is angry that tech-employed women are complacent. According to Shanley, the problem needs to be addressed by women. These could be seen as opposing views.

Joke? Joke.

Terrible read