How I Deal with Sexual Discrimination in a Positive Way?

Re:How I Deal with Sexual Discrimination in a Positive Way? by candeira on Saturday May 21, 2011 @09:27PM (#2572339)

Yeah, I am married to someone who got death threats over email for daring to start a group promoting women's participation in free sofware projects. So never mind that most men in the industry aren't like that, a small proportion of toxic people still make for a poisonous environment.

And this is before we start quantifying how small that proportion really is, and how negative other aspects of discrimination can be. Death threats and sexual harassment are only the showy, extreme points of a very wide continuum of discrimination.

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Re:How I Deal with Sexual Discrimination in a Positive Way? by Confusion on Sunday May 22, 2011 @04:48AM (#2572913)

This is incredibly important. It cannot be repeated often enough, because people seem to keep forgetting it:

  that *most* men in the industry aren't like that,

and

  a small proportion of toxic people still make for a 
  poisonous environment.

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