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dgempesaw | 12 years ago | on: This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup

If we actually want to "nip it in the bud," shouldn't we be talking at/about/towards the men who groped and insulted her ? That's the actual bud here, right? Why are we all trying to police her behavior instead of the men who attacked her?

dgempesaw | 12 years ago | on: This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup

You know how this situation should have been actually handled?

Men shouldn't grope women they don't know. (yes, okay, people in general shouldn't grope strangers, not all men, not all women, okay, thanks.)

0 seconds; situation never happened, and you never added to the misogyny on HN.

dgempesaw | 12 years ago | on: Our approach to gender diversity

> Yet there are way more female lawyers out there than programmers.

> Yet somehow programmers seem to be able to scare women away where in other areas they don't feel intimidated.

We're in agreement that it's the programmers who are the problem, and not just "women choosing not to do it," then?

I guess you're trying to attack the validity/veracity/relevance of blog posts in general? That's an interesting discussion to have on its own, but I'm not entirely sure what your first and last paragraphs have to do with the question I posed before:

Women say they are discriminated against, but you haven't seen any of that in your personal experience. That's great, but it's not logically sound to generalize your experience to the entire industry when there's a mountain of evidence to the contrary. So should we believe women who have first hand experience with discrimination, or your second hand account of it?

dgempesaw | 12 years ago | on: Our approach to gender diversity

Many "women choose not to do it," because of sexist environments composed primarily of men who repeatedly tell them not to be progammers . So, sure, the problem is women choosing not to be programmers, but that's not the underlying cause.

The first-hand experiences of many women in tech, widely available on public blogs, are directly opposed to your second-hand experience of them. Should we take your word for it, or theirs?

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