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Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit by CJefferson on Saturday May 09, 2020 @11:49AM (#23125696)
Honestly, they aren't in github issues. They are on Twitter, they are sending people DMs, they are at physical meetups.

Me and my wife are both AI academics in the UK who do a bunch of programming. I have no "interesring stories" to tell, my wife has a dozen including men punching walls because they were beaten by a woman in a board game, being sent death threats and dick pics (not from the same person), and being assumed to be my non-tech wife when we go to events where she was invited and I was going as her partner.

Now, these events aren't daily, or even weekly, but they stick with people and make then feel unwelcome and unsafe.

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Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit by fastball on Saturday May 09, 2020 @07:12PM (#23129003)
> Twitter

> Toxicity

Probably you don't need to go further than that.

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Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit by DreamScatter on Monday May 11, 2020 @06:20AM (#23140595)
Sounds like those issues she is having is not due to her industry, but just due to some sort of other dynamics not necessarily related to the industry itself.
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