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GitHub's first female developer quits citing sexist tech culture and harassment. /r/technology isn't so sure that she quit for this reason and some of them think that she's using this explanation to draw attention away from the real reason why she left. The entire thread is a drama shit show. (self.SubredditDrama)

SubredditDrama

27 ups - 9 downs = 18 votes

[Full thread.] (http://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/20hyf8/sexistcultureandharassmentdrives_githubs/)

"Many men feel the same way [about criticism]. You for some reason feel a need to accuse someone you've never met of being 'oversensitive' because she's female in defence of people you don't know at a company you don't work for. In my experience a lot of tech shops are dramatically sexist and open source teams tend to be worse because of the 'I do this for free so I'll act how I want' factor. I've also not noticed that women are any worse at taking criticism than men, unless you're counting 'tits or gtfo' and threats of sexual assault as criticism."
"I put the blame on her. Why? Lack of professionalism and evidence. If she had evidence it would be nothing for her to go to the labor board over discrimination and/or hostile work environment. But she didn't go to the labor board. If she is willing to unprofessionally start tossing allegations around in public with no evidence it's likely she lacked the professionalism in the work place as well. The funny thing is when these social justice morons take shit to the public, right or wrong, they end up in a black ball database."
"Playing devils advocate here, but maybe the "attempted character assassinations" are actually true. Maybe she really was a shitty employee who couldn't take criticism, and pulled the gender card to get her way. People pull this kind of shit all the time. I feel like there is either not enough information here, or too much misinformation to go ahead and label GitHub misogynistic."
"Skepticism in the face of accusations without evidence? I'm proud to say that is what the tech field is like. If that's not your style, maybe you'd be happier elsewhere. Plenty of fields encourage water cooler gossip."
> white-male-dominated tech community, and start trying to make their own, new tech spaces

"Stuff like that is what makes me think they're the ones who are sexist and racist. They're stereotyping an entire sex and race, and advocating segregating based on sex and race (and see no irony in it). They're the same people that use words like "check your privilege" to silence men who complain about double standards."

24 comments submitted at 15:00:09 on Mar 16, 2014 by red321red321

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circleandsquare
-9 Points
15:21:43, 16 March

It's the reason I left CS, and I'm a white cisgender male.

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jsh1138
12 Points
15:32:30, 16 March

why do you feel the need to start self applying "cisgender"? do you just latch onto every subculture buzzterm and start using it or is there some specific reason for that one

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Barl0we
8 Points
15:52:47, 16 March

My guess is that it's to say that he agrees with the notion that the space is sexist without being a person that fit into the pigeonholes that people who complain about it are put into.

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jsh1138
0 Points
15:57:50, 16 March

and when you think of people complaining about sexism you naturally think "transgendered" people? seriously?

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PUBIC_HAIR_SMOOTHIE
3 Points
15:41:08, 16 March

police dat language

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circleandsquare
-3 Points
15:40:32, 16 March

Cisgender as in not transgender. Could I get a good faith explanation as to why I'm being downvoted? I said that I left CS because there is a hostile undercurrent of elitism.

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jsh1138
5 Points
15:44:18, 16 March

yeah but why do you use the term "cisgender"? why not just say "i'm a straight white male"? i'm not trying to fuck with you, i'm genuinely curious why/where that term has entered your active vocabulary

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circleandsquare
8 Points
15:53:23, 16 March

I meant to use it as a means of saying "not transgender." I honestly do not understand why I'm being grilled here.

Also, definitely not straight :p

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jsh1138
1 Points
15:57:00, 16 March

me asking you 1 question is "grilling" you?

and ok, why not say "gay white male"?

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S31556926
1 Points
16:10:46, 16 March

Maybe he doesn't think his sexual orientation is an important factor in the discussion, but gender identification is?

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koosh_ball
2 Points
16:01:00, 16 March

People here have a really hard time with applying a label to their gender identity. They'd probably rather be called "normal." Meanwhile, they have no problem with the word "straight." I think a SJW must have made them sad once and they can't get over that it's just a word people decided to use to mean "not transgender."

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Moh7
1 Points
15:57:58, 16 March

This isn't SRS or TUMBLR and people don't like that shity language they use.

That's why you're being downvoted.

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S31556926
2 Points
16:04:07, 16 March

"Straight white male" and "white cisgender male" do not mean the same thing, for one.

What's odd to me is that for "cisgender" to be useful you have to expect there to a highly conserved idea of what being a "man" or being a "woman" means... which doesn't seem like an idea that would be real popular in the trans/queer/genderfluid beautiful and unique snowflake community.

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DogeMeToTheMoon
-4 Points
15:45:21, 16 March

Uhh? Why does that word bother you so much?

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jsh1138
8 Points
15:45:57, 16 March

why does me asking someone else a question bother you so much?

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DemonicBtch
2 Points
16:03:35, 16 March

The question came across as hostile.