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The Backlash Against Women in Tech Is in Full Swing

Ej, what have you been seeing in terms Oh, I mean, everything's terrible right now It's really just swung so far right that over the past decade or so, you know, that it's kind of unbelievable to think about. And there are lots of different…

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Ej, what have you been seeing in terms

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Oh, I mean, everything's terrible right now

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It's really just swung so far right

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that over the past decade or so, you know,

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that it's kind of unbelievable to think about.

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And there are lots of different reasons for that, right?

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Like, there's the political climate,

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and, you know, the cultural climate and algorithms

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enabling manosphere content and all of those things.

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I mean, I am just sort of astonished

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When I started out my career, like I said before,

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like I used to get online harassment all the time

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just by virtue of being a woman on the internet,

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writing publicly about sexism and the internet.

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And I used to get anonymous death threats,

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and now people will just like write their full names.

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And the last email I got, a guy included his LinkedIn.

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And that seems to be like the real shift for me

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is just that people feel so emboldened to say things

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that they would otherwise have said

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just using their full chests and attaching their real names.

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Yeah, I think more often what I probably experienced,

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I'm sorry by the way, Ej, that you went through…

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