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In reply to the discussion: "Sexism, racism and bullying are driving people out of tech, US study finds" [View all]bettyellen
(47,209 posts)30. If you missed her condensation toward fellow students she didn't know well...
I don't know what to say. It's awesome she carved her own path, it's sad that wasn't expressed without belittling other women. Is it a coincidence she ended up in a field with the same belittling attitude?
Like you explained, she has a lot incommon with the IT assholes who believe they're innately better than women- it doesn't all sound positive though.
And "creation of the archetype"!?!? All I can say is "Howard Roark laughed."
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"Sexism, racism and bullying are driving people out of tech, US study finds" [View all]
Jamaal510
May 2017
OP
What was the gender and racial breakdown in these firms because across the board it's dismal....
bettyellen
May 2017
#6
If "talking about boys at the mean girl lunch table" is what she assumes other women want to do 9-5
bettyellen
May 2017
#17
They're a little young to be pigeonholed as "boy crazy gossips" just because they don't work on
bettyellen
May 2017
#26
Binary? Dismissive Thinking? Male Domain? What Club? What are you talking about?
Sen. Walter Sobchak
May 2017
#29
If you missed her condensation toward fellow students she didn't know well...
bettyellen
May 2017
#30
boy network? you are clearly having a conversation with somebody else
Sen. Walter Sobchak
May 2017
#36
The overwhelmingly male work environment that she strives to rationize away as normal-
bettyellen
May 2017
#37
What do you expect when you have racist, sexist bullies in charge of the government?
Initech
May 2017
#21