Dear Hacker Community – We Need To Talk

Re:Dear Hacker Community – We Need To Talk by learn on Friday December 28, 2012 @08:52PM (#4980656)

This was horrible to read.

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Re:Dear Hacker Community – We Need To Talk by kabuks on Friday December 28, 2012 @08:58PM (#4980695)

What do you mean? Writing style? It's my run on sentences isn't it.

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Re:Dear Hacker Community – We Need To Talk by Alex3917 on Friday December 28, 2012 @09:28PM (#4980806)

I think this piece would have been stronger if it were just 3 - 5 examples and then discussion. If the piece is going to be billed as a call for discussion about sexism, then the piece should be mostly about sexism rather than about things not related to sexism that went wrong with the project.

Also, for what it's worth most of the questionable behavior I see comes from the developers who are part of open source culture rather than from the ones who are part of startup culture. Not sure if others agree or disagree.

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Re:Dear Hacker Community – We Need To Talk by thejsjunky on Friday December 28, 2012 @09:47PM (#4980858)

> billed as a call for discussion about sexism

I'm curious why some people seem to think that she is exclusively talking about or attributing her problems to sexism. The very first sentence:

> Some parts of this article deal with misogyny, sexism, and harassment, while other aspects of it respond to experiences of down-right douche-baggery.

...explicitly states that sexism is only part of the discussion. Was this edited at some point after publishing? Perhaps some readers not carefully perusing, or some combination thereof.

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Re:Dear Hacker Community – We Need To Talk by Alex3917 on Friday December 28, 2012 @10:08PM (#4980910)

Fair enough, I forgot about that part by the end.

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