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Cry me a river, the overwhelming majority of sexism in the IT-industry is towards men and white men in particular. Men also don't get the privilege of getting any media outcry or changes for the sexism against them.

Just to give a few examples on top of my head:

There has been no conferences that has been [1] shut down or postponed [2] because of the skin color or sex of the speakers. It has definately been so for men.

No women has AFAIK been fired for making jokes in a private discussion [3].

No women has been exluded from asking questions because of their sex AFAIK [4]

And the examples just goes on, these are simply the ones I remember just now and have good sources simply because they were making headlines.

I know HN is filled with white knights that are ridiculously enough are okay with sexism against men so let the downvotes rain upon me.

[1] https://2019.phpce.eu/en/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/6f8u2s/githubs_...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes...

[4] https://adainitiative.org/2014/09/22/why-guido-van-rossum-su...

parent ecmascript 6 years ago

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