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> Even if true - and I'd like to see some evidence, please

Adria Richards, (not a programmer, claims to encourage "diversity", yet her claim to fame is getting offended over a joke).

Anita Sarkeesian (on the record, she says video games are stupid and hasn't even played the games she critcizes).

Shanley Kane. http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/01/21/yes-i-was-a-racis...

It's not just that vocal accusers have no evidence of sexism, they're flat out vitriolic and command armies of trolls that swarm upon anyone who criticizes them.

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Yes, there are some bad apples doing the accusing (pretty sure that Sarkeesian shouldn't be in that list). That was one of my points: for those people, it's a matter of power, and unrelated to any actual sexism.

That doesn't alter the fact that a) there is tech. industry sexism, b) your examples scarcely prove your assertion that the majority of loud accusers are bad apples, c) non-experts in a field can still call out problems in that field.

What do you think about Ellen Pao? Julie Ann Horvath?

What are some examples of tech industry sexism, as you see it?

Pao? http://www.vanityfair.com/style/scandal/2013/03/buddy-fletch... ... basically, she was suing for pretty much the same amount that her husband was being sued for. Coincidence? I think not, especially other revelations about her character that were made during the trial.

Horvath? That whole situation was seven shades of wrong; I don't think it proved anything about institutional sexism at GitHub, but it certainly demonstrated how poor (or at least, how inconsistent) their HR practices were. Her story would set (good) HR managers heads on fire, and I'm still surprised she didn't sue them over it all. (I do disagree with her opinion on the meritocracy issue, though: meritorcracy is something all organisations should strive for, and a term of which we should be proud).

Examples of tech industry sexism? How about this for starters: http://www.dailydot.com/news/cryptoparty-founder-asher-wolf-... There are many, many examples of behaviour like this in the tech industry (and others).

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