"An employee complained about sexual harassment at Github. The confirmation of some of her accusations by an independent investigator led the CEO to step down."
Sounds different, doesn't it?
> She accused the company of sexism and sexual harassment (independent investigator found none, and other female Github engineers said there was nothing wrong)
> JAH also complained of terrible sexual harassment - that is, men looking at women spinning hula hoops. Women did not complain, but JAH got offended on their behalf anyway.
Are these not facts? Were "men looking at women spinning hula hoops" and this other individual brought it to someone's attention as sexual harassment?
> and a friend of hers were hula hooping to some music. I didn’t have a problem with this.
> What I did have a problem with is the line of men sitting on one bench facing the
> hoopers and gawking at them. It looked like something out of a strip club. When I
> brought this up to male coworkers, they didn’t see a problem with it. But for me it felt
> unsafe and to be honest, really embarrassing. That was the moment I decided to finally
> leave GitHub."
From the HN discussion when this happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408492
Article in question: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes...
The reason he stepped down was not due to sexual harassment complaints, but to his wife misusing resources of the company.
Even by the narrow "power plus prejudice" definition this is false; this is pretty readily observable, in the first instance, in lots of contexts where whites are not in a position of power (even in localized contexts embedded in broader societies where whites are in a position of power.)
They may be less significant in modern American society because of the general power distribution in the overall society and therefore the most common power distribution in particular contexts embedded within that society, but that's very different than not being real things.
There's no anti-male sexist oppression going. There may be instances of anti-male sexist discrimination (eg. assuming that male kindergarten teachers are child molesters).
Two different definitions of sexism and racism.
Depending on the definition of racism and sexism, the "anti-white" and "anti-male" variants may exist or not. Please don't assume that your definition (which seems to be of the "oppression" kind) is universal.