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For the record, I didn't say any of this. It's not controversial to talk about your experience. It's certainly controversial to generalize your experience acros
by jessedhillon 5y ago
For the record, I didn't say any of this. It's not controversial to talk about your experience. It's certainly controversial to generalize your experience across an entire industry, or sex. And it's not acceptable to be harassed, but yes it's normal and not specific to women.
- ekager 5y agoSo when ~50% of women working in tech have experienced harassment is that enough of a pattern to generalize? Or does it need to be 100% before we can talk about it? https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/40percent-of-women-in-tech-say-theyve-been-harassed-by-boss-or-investor.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/40percent-of-women-in-tech-s... Beyond that, harassment is not the only problem I talked about.
- jessedhillon 5y agoI don't trust the results of anonymous online surveys, nor should you. It's amazing that any organization purporting to be journalistic would report such results, but those are the times we live in, I guess. Anyway, my comment was about base rates of harassment received by anyone saying anything critical of anyone else: they are high, no matter who you are and what you are saying. It's not right, but it's not limited to women.