> I mean, they can be, but is there any reason to believe they are?

Yes, there is: women stepped forward.

> Have male leaders of similar protests been treated better?

Men either haven't experienced the same, or they are keeping their mouth shut.

In both scenarios, women should be supported. If men step forward, so should they. They didn't so far (or at least, not in large enough numbers for such a protest to be reported), so based on the data we have available to us, the problem affects women way more than it affects men.

I don’t really understand the response. Is your claim that, if something bad happens to a woman without simultaneously happening to a man, that automatically makes it a gender bias issue?

You do understand it, you just refuse to understand it.

But to answer your question, yes. If enough women were affected that they felt compelled to step out, and men didn't, that's clearly a gender bias issue.

Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? You've done that repeatedly in this thread, including crossing into personal attack. That helps nothing and only makes this place worse, regardless of how bad another comment is or how right you feel you are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Yeah, it's almost as if I lived in that "but what about men's issues?" bullshit a few years previously. The only difference between us two is that I snapped out of it.

Glad we agree!

A woman? No, sorry, try again.

Here's an article[0] from October. Relevant quote:

> After publication of this article, Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, and Ms. Naughton wrote in an email to employees that the company had fired 48 people for sexual harassment over the last two years and that none of them received an exit package.

Unless you believe that 48 people were fired for sexually abusing the exact same woman, the problem is a bit more... shall we say widespread?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-...

Google has over 100k employees or even more if you count temps. 24 per year means that around 0.024% gets fired for harassment per year which is extremely low, many cities have higher murder rate than that. So it is not a sign that there is a huge problem, on the contrary the number is so low that I'd suspect that they cover up a lot of things,

There haven't been male leaders of a similar protest (that is, a protest claiming repeated sexual harassment). At least, not to my knowledge...