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Re:Sexism and Tech and Love by moron4hire on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @01:55PM (#6929675)
That is not the point of the anecdote. Nobody should have their competency questioned by a coworker in front of a client.

This is why so many men (and a lot of women) don't get the issues that women (and a lot of men) face in technology: people are fucking assholes to each other.

Re:Sexism and Tech and Love by smacktoward on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @02:00PM (#6929720)
Seriously. It is amazing how many of these problems wouldn't be problems if people just behaved towards each other with even a minimal amount of courtesy. "Praise in public, criticize in private" isn't a hard rule to learn.

I wonder how much of this is due to tech's historic legacy as a safe space for the socially awkward. There's a fine line between a culture where the socially awkward are welcome and a culture where social awkwardness is considered a positive good.