Andromeda and Greg, Thanks for posting the followups to the Coding Horror post.
Peter > On Apr 26, 2014, at 11:17 PM, "Greg Wilson" <gvwil...@software-carpentry.org> > wrote: > > Further to Andromeda's note, http://jacobian.org/writing/what-can-men-do/ > takes Atwood's post apart point by point. > - Greg >> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 20:46:01 -0400 >> From: Andromeda Yelton <andromeda.yel...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: Fwd: Diversity >> >> Important: this post was the subject of quite a lot of fury on Twitter, >> being similar to an earlier essay by Shanley Kane of the same title >> https://medium.com/tech-culture-briefs/a1e93d985af0 -- a fact which the >> Coding Horror post initially neglected to attribute. Sara Chipps, quoted >> in the Coding Horror post, has also publicly expressed displeasure at how >> the original version of the post used her words (I'm not sure whether the >> edits have addressed this). And people on the autism spectrum have >> expressed some outrage over how they are implicitly blamed for tech sexism >> (something that Shanley did not do in her post, which moreover has more >> suggestions for what you can do). >> >> So I submit that the first thing men (and everyone) can do in this thread >> is read Shanley first. >> >> Andromeda Yelton >> LITA Board of Directors, Director-at-Large, 2013-2016 >> http://andromedayelton.com >> @ThatAndromeda