> Reverse-sexism undermines and hurts the anti-sexist and female-friendly atmosphere that most of the tech community would like to foster.
It may be that the tech community would like to foster anti-sexism, but reality shows that it does anything but that. Also, reverse-sexism isn't a thing, there is just sexism (which men, as a gender, are largely not affected by).
> Gender discrimination and sexism need to be called out and stopped everywhere, but "crying wolf", without reason, weakens the very moral ground we purport to defend.
Soghoian's original paragraph about Norton's tweets are sexist as they don't add anything to his original blog post except to taint Norton as someone who is biased against men, which Norton's tweets don't even support. Soghoian knows his audience is primarily men and even if he didn't intend to show Norton in that light he sure did.
It may be that the tech community would like to foster anti-sexism, but reality shows that it does anything but that. Also, reverse-sexism isn't a thing, there is just sexism (which men, as a gender, are largely not affected by).
> Gender discrimination and sexism need to be called out and stopped everywhere, but "crying wolf", without reason, weakens the very moral ground we purport to defend.
Soghoian's original paragraph about Norton's tweets are sexist as they don't add anything to his original blog post except to taint Norton as someone who is biased against men, which Norton's tweets don't even support. Soghoian knows his audience is primarily men and even if he didn't intend to show Norton in that light he sure did.