ekager

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by ekager 5y ago
Hello that is me. I left almost a year ago. I posted that as a joke after years of abuse and it was directed towards those abusive community members. I had no ill will towards users. In fact, users are why I stayed so long and tried to impr
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by ekager 5y ago
So 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
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by ekager 5y ago
I am the author. If I published under a pseudo name then the comments here would be “This is fake. Not even a real person is willing to say this”. You truly can’t win. I said in the article that not every woman in tech gets death threats. B
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by ekager 5y ago
How do you think it would go showing anonymous death threats to the police? I can tell you because we’ve tried! Not well. They laugh you out of the station. You think giving advice to “not doxx yourself” is useful advice? It is not. We are
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by ekager 5y ago
Women discussing their personal experiences is "controversial"? And we "should expect" trolling and harassment and worse? That's exactly the problem. You think that that's normal and acceptable.
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by ekager 5y ago
appreciate you here mthoms
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by ekager 5y ago
no
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by ekager 6y ago
And why are you assuming that I wasn't qualified or a competitive candidate? I said I applied on a whim and wasn't drawn to Mozilla for any particular reason, not that I didn't deserve the job?
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by ekager 6y ago
Hi! Emily here. Added some more context in a footnote to the original blog post about the worst types of harassment I experienced.
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by ekager 6y ago
Sorry, how many years of experience with professional software development do you expect your interns to have?
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by ekager 6y ago
I read them <3 Thank you!
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by ekager 6y ago
Hi! Emily here! Added some more context in a footnote in the blog post about this "obscene gesture" and the harassment after the fact. TLDR: The amount of disgusting harassment I received was unbelievable and could never be justif