Men generally seem to take issue with women who own their sexuality, combine that with the general level of misogyny and sexism in the tech industry and the general level of gate keeping that surrounds "nerd" culture and you get this.
Please stop repeating the myth that tech industry is somehow extremely misogynistic or sexist. It's not more than other industries, in fact I strongly suspect it is actually less.
Did GP imply that tech is more misogynistic than other industries? Or "extremely" so?
I do not think they did.
Even if tech is on par with, or less than, other industries with regards to misogyny, what then? We (HN) largely work in tech. It (the industry) has a problem. Let's talk about what to do about it, not pretend it doesn't exist because "it could be worse".
I think they did hint at it, to quote "combine that with the general level of misogyny and sexism in the tech industry"; but only they know. If they didn't - good!
> We (HN) largely work in tech. It (the industry) has a problem.
No, it's a social problem. Tech industry per se has nothing to do with it. I can see many social problems (and worse ones, let's be real) unrelated to tech that we can and should talk about and not pretend they don't exist.
I mean, look at it from the other side - we shouldn't ignore a social problem because it isn't an issue in tech - for example, homelessness.
Disappointing but not surprising.