Taking Action Against Harassment in Tech
dave.cheney.net
dave.cheney.net
That's from the article. This isn't productive and this should probably be flagged.
Actually, it reads like a thoughtless, sexist screed by someone who deoesn't actually care enough about the issue to give it the serious thought and attention that it deserves by someone who knows almost nothing about the topic and doesn't care to interested in gaining +1 Valor for their White Knight class.
> The tech industry is a sick, male dominated, misogynistic, flaccid void that continues to permit weak, small, frightened men to abuse and harass women from a presumed position of anonymous safety.
I don't think that the article would be permitted to stay had they written something like this about education and women. Similarly, I think HN should impose their standards about quality fairly, and remove this post for its thoughtless, sexist nature and not sink to the level of engaging in sexist messages.
This post is Internet chest thumping. Keyboard jockeys are not going to feel threatened. Not sure who this is helping.
If the author actually wants to change anything he should start by making it clear he isn't blaming men as a group since the only reasonable thing to do when you are attacked is to counter attack. Then he should make it very clear what he expects people to do (have a very clear call to action) and why.
Writing angrily doesn't make for a convincing copy (in fact my most angry comments here have consistently been down-voted the most) and putting small in there with a slew of negative traits just made me consider his position with even less charity.