Influential Developer Julie Ann Horvath Quits GitHub, Charging 'Harassment'

redpillshadow · 2014-03-15T21:56:36+00:00

They probably called her bossy #banbossy

There is a thread on /r/technology http://redditlog.com/snapshots/376981 with pretty much redpill comments. They don't believe her or are at least skeptic. Maybe that will turn around once another sub takes an interest.

Also in that thread: http://i.imgur.com/N6Poz2B.jpg A different take to the story.

FortunateBum · 2014-03-15T22:07:49+00:00

Money and status attracts fierce alpha females driven to secure those resources. These females are socially adept, smart, and know how to use their vagina to maximum effect.

The Silicon Valley Nerd Betas don't stand a chance.

I'm just wondering how long it'll take these women to destroy the entire industry in an attempt to siphon off all its wealth.

The only thing protecting these companies is keeping them engineer heavy. As soon as they let "marketers" and other useless staff in, everything will crumble.

VaginalAssaultRifles · 2014-03-15T22:12:22+00:00

Well, you don't know what she was forced to endure. They might have treated her the same as they treated the male programmers instead of the special snowflake that she is!

PolegarVermelho · 2014-03-15T22:29:38+00:00

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pro_skub · 2014-03-16T00:16:20+00:00

I just read it in the biggest community of asshats of internet, namely HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7405325

To my surprise the comments are not so white knighty as I expected from them. But those guys are clueless nonetheless with their "we don't know what happened, bla bla bla"

Now, regarding that woman, she seems to have an overinflated ego. Here are some red alarms:

http://recode.net/2014/03/15/prominent-github-engineer-julie-ann-horvath-quits-claiming-gender-based-harassment/

From the article, she was doing a lot of work to promote feminism in IT.
Twitter account. Of course. Because people cannot live without knowing your opinion on things.
A series of hyperbolic and attention whoric tweets. Because that's the best way to deal with problems. Shitting publicly on the other party.
Twitter background profile pic with a bad joke about her, that's also some kind of sexual innuendo.
Also from her twitter intro: "Breaks builds, hearts." Yawn.

PolegarVermelho · 2014-03-16T00:20:41+00:00

She isn't a even a fucking developer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7405368

Some guys on HN are calling against all this BS, but, unfortunately, the vast majority of the "alpha programmers" that hang there seems to be White Knights.

fruitofmyloom · 2014-03-16T02:40:29+00:00

It's easy here to say "haha" and "women r dumb,lol." I'll try and provide a different, short analysis. The key bits to keep in mind here:

They acquiesced to the female imperative with the removal of the rug.
They "encouraged women" to join their industry with women-only programs. I believe they created some sort of special lecture series for women only.
They paid special attention to the women employed there. See the email where the manager asked the developer "How are the women at Github?" She replied in typical snarky fashion. Not a team player. I wouldn't want to work with her.

These are facts. By all accounts, this is "progressive". Women should love this right?

This particular developer was involved on all 3 of these events. Let's look at these through the eyes of TRP.

Shit test
Pedestalization
Pedestalization

What happens when you work to appease women? That's right, you incur their wrath for the slightest misstep.

What is likely to have happened? They treated her like they would treat any other man:

Critical
Performance-based
Ignored for promotions even if she deserved them

This is the result.

This woman has basically guaranteed that she will never be hired anywhere again.

ejtnjin · 2014-03-16T04:16:41+00:00

Female in computer science here. Nothing really constructive to say except that stuff like this pisses me off on an extremely personal level. I have worked so hard to gain the respect of my male peers, only for other women in the software industry to do embarrassing crap like this.

Whenever a story of something like "school gets more girls into computer science" circulates, everyone wants my opinion about it and assumes that I am going to be a huge fan. But it's usually something stupid like, "We created an easier intro class for girls and then they stopped dropping out." It makes me worry that people will assume that I only got my degree/job due to lowered standards.

Basically, these types of women make it harder for the few women that actually want to earn their own way in the software industry. Good job, feminism!

/rant

Edit: I finally was able to find one particular story that infuriates me the most:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/giving-women-the-access-code.html

To reduce the intimidation factor, the course was divided into two sections — “gold,” for those with no prior experience, and “black” for everyone else. Java, a notoriously opaque programming language, was replaced by a more accessible language called Python. And the focus of the course changed to computational approaches to solving problems across science.

In other words, they made an easier intro class for women and kept the normal intro class for men.

grelknar · 2014-03-15T23:23:25+00:00

This is what happens when you build a company on identity politics rather than products or services.

Modified_Hackware · 2014-03-16T03:53:38+00:00

Horvath wasn't very specific about her reasons for leaving GitHub. In her comments on Twitter, Horvath implied that she quit her job because of "aggressive behavior" that was disguised as "professional feedback."

Translated:

Your code is fucking garbage and is not up to scratch stop talking to feminists and deliver the product.

Result:

I got bullied because I am a woman.

Well yeah, if you equate being a woman to being unable to deliver product. Knuckle down and work under pressure like the rest of us? No.

Cry about it on social media? Standard.

mdadm · 2014-03-16T11:19:50+00:00

The plot thickens -- turns out she had a spat with the owners' wife

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes-sexism-and-intimidation-behind-her-github-exit/

Looks like a typical "women entering a productive male space and fucking everything up when their feels hamster out of control" situation to me.

Two women, one of whom I work with and adore, and a friend of hers were hula hooping to some music. I didn’t have a problem with this. What I did have a problem with is the line of men sitting on one bench facing the hoopers and gawking at them. It looked like something out of a strip club. When I brought this up to male coworkers, they didn’t see a problem with it. But for me it felt unsafe and to be honest, really embarrassing. That was the moment I decided to finally leave GitHub.

Translation: I'm too frigid to elicit such male attention, therefore other women who can are creating hostile work environments.

Then there's the technology subreddit thread. http://redditlog.com/snapshots/377833

Some of these comments are making me gag.

While tech is one of the last great bastions of misogyny

oh dear.

GMotor · 2014-03-15T21:48:16+00:00

Quit due to harassment... or jumping before she was pushed and blaming the patriarchy for her poor job performance.

You decide!

rebuildingMyself · 2014-03-16T04:51:45+00:00

This is why I avoid hiring women.

puah8r · 2014-03-15T22:30:32+00:00

I was a computer major in college. All the attractive girls I know are working at companies like Facebook, Google, Apple. I know there is no way they are more talented then the guys there and that is an objective fact. For example one girl I know got a D in calculus and had to repeat the class. My friend's wife who is working on a phd has interned at Google and Microsoft and Apple and basically doors open to her anywhere she wants. Desperate beta nerds will look over any faults a girl has who can write a line of code and looks attractive, and the threshold for attractiveness is pretty low. Throw in affirmative action and quotas into the mix then being a women who can code basically guarantees them a job in any high profile company.

rebuildingMyself · 2014-03-16T10:23:36+00:00

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dr_bloodmoney · 2014-03-16T04:03:28+00:00

Anyone here worked with a female programmer that was worth a shit? I've worked with 2. In 22 years. I know, I know, she's not a programmer.

santaincarnate · 2014-03-16T20:40:40+00:00

TL:DR bitch joins tech company, gets in fight with bosses wife, gets offended at younger hotter colleague hoola-hooping, pisses of pretty much everyone, leaves. Proceeds to publicly badmouth former employer.

Lesson? Never hire women.

trudatness · 2014-03-16T14:18:35+00:00

How much you want to bet the root cause of this is money?

redpillbanana · 2014-03-16T15:23:58+00:00

Formerly Influential Developer is more like it. No one succeeds by playing the victim.

Redpillc0re · 2014-03-16T20:58:43+00:00

Woman gets pressure at work, names it harassment (she specifically stated it was not sexual harassment). Regardless, this is somehow a "women's issue" and the techno-mediasphere explodes. Were it a guy, he would be publicly called a whiner.

The biggest contribution of women to technology nowadays is sexual or non-sexual harassment scandals. As a group, it does a disservice to them (and paints all of IT as sexist).

2014-03-16T07:38:41+00:00

Julia Ann is really hot I agree

Title	Influential Developer Julie Ann Horvath Quits GitHub, Charging 'Harassment'
Author	watersign
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Comments	126
Date	March 15, 2014 9:29 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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