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I didn't know the story. From http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/03/19/3416013/github-j... :

"The sight of her male coworkers leering at a group of women in the office was the last straw for Github’s first female hire."

Take a workplace with all-men, and due to sheer probability you're going to get a lot of leerers when any number of women walk in. That's really a bit unfair of an assessment. I'd like to see what happens when an attractive man walks into a workplace that is all-women.



I'd like to see what happens when an attractive man walks into a workplace that is all-women

I've been in this situation a few times and it makes me feel incredibly terrified.


It can be for a number of reasons, but I doubt script kiddies are champions of feminism. If it's professional criminals, they won't care one way or another.


I'm not commenting on the situation at all. Just speculating.

I wouldn't have made that comment had I known that DDoSes on GitHub were not uncommon.


> That's really a bit unfair of an assessment.

The point is that it should be acceptable in either circumstance, not that you shouldn't complain about what happens in an majority male environment because something analogous might happen in a majority female environment.




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