sherry smith gray
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read

In reading the comments, I see several commenters dedicated to controlling the narrative. That poor boy who wrote the misogynistic manifesto, he was young and in need of counseling and understanding, and the big Google meanie chose to fire him instead. That poor boy who had somehow gotten through the upper education necessary to be hired by Google. That anonymous person who might be any age and have any background, whose backstory you made up.

Because that one man’s delicate feelings are more important than the thousands of women he has impacted by validating the toxic workplace for women in in tech in an extremely public manner.

Thanks, commenters, for demonstrating exactly why women are rare in tech.

And thank you, Yonatan, for pointing out that women bring valuable skills to the tech table.

    sherry smith gray

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