Every time I see a story like this, I am honestly wondering where all these people are working, as I have never encountered anyone near these levels of sexism in many years of working in the tech industry (albeit in Sweden).
What rubs me the wrong way though is when people project experiences like these onto their own experiences of lesser magnitude.
For example, a while back a colleague asked me for a sit-down and explained that she was frustrated that i had "mansplained" her in a meeting. She was fuming. At worst, I might have interrupted her at one point or two inadvertently because there was a heated discussion on a technical topic. I don't want to rob her of these feelings but I feel like overall we're talking about some actual sexist idiots and then have a much larger layer of people who are just looking to be mad about something.
What rubs me the wrong way though is when people project experiences like these onto their own experiences of lesser magnitude.
For example, a while back a colleague asked me for a sit-down and explained that she was frustrated that i had "mansplained" her in a meeting. She was fuming. At worst, I might have interrupted her at one point or two inadvertently because there was a heated discussion on a technical topic. I don't want to rob her of these feelings but I feel like overall we're talking about some actual sexist idiots and then have a much larger layer of people who are just looking to be mad about something.