I hate to be the one to draw the feminism card on HN because I know I'll attract a swarm of people that'll 'disagree' with me by shouting things at me, but that is called rape culture, and despite the confusing name, it is not solely about rape.
If that sounds hard to believe I can empathise, it took a personal anecdote for me to get and notice the spread of it too.
If you're wondering how one would be disincentivized, have a lot at how people react:
Re:In Defense of Richard Stallman
by EdwardDiego on Monday September 30, 2019 @08:17AM
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I scrolled for a bit, but that didn't answer my question about MIT's culpability and lack of action on allegations made to them.
Oh wait, you're saying that no allegations were made to them? Did I read that right?
I don't know, there doesn't seem to be any documented instances of that I can find. Doesn't mean there wasn't any, but as I said, disincentives to reporting are high.
Re:In Defense of Richard Stallman
by EdwardDiego on Monday September 30, 2019 @08:29AM
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Which makes me worry about MIT the organisation then - a healthy organisation would have processes in place to minimise those disincentives.
I can't believe this hasn't been asked yet - if the allegations are founded, why didn't MIT do anything as his employer? They have a statutory obligation to provide a safe workplace.