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Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year ago

The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman

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The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman

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Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year ago
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I recently reached a few high points in my career that coincided, not coincidentally, with some of the worst harassment of my life. It made me reflect on how my career has been defined as much in terms of misogyny as technical excellence (I’ve garnered quite a CV in both), and how I have struggled t
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    Shortly after publishing this article in her blog, she also published a gh repo collecting incidents of misogynism https://github.com/iyzhang/misogyny/ It would be great if people can give it a read or contribute incidents.

    Glad to see this article is eventually published by the ACM.

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      Open source misogyny

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    Man I wish there were more women in programming, I’ve met like 3 and one of them was the sole female classmate in cs

    I’d finally have something I could talk passionately about without boring them out of their minds

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      Wow you’re insane. “I know, I’ll discredit the woman who just pointed out that it’s hard to get credit in her field as a woman ”

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      You have a lot of issues and you might want to look at why this triggered you so much. Are you behaving this way because it made you re-examine your own past behavior?

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