A Docker engineer got so many threats the company hired security to protect her

http://www.businessinsider.com/death-rape-threats-for-docker-engineer-2016-4

by adventured • 10 years ago

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ksenzee• 10 years ago

The news here (if you can call it that) is that Frazelle seems to have left because Docker was tolerating her being harassed, instead of supporting her like they said they would. You have to read between the lines to see it, because she's not coming out and saying so, so there's really not enough there to hang a news article on.

tomlock17• 10 years ago

Is this going to be another article that Hacker News tosses on the pile of "chose not to believe"? Here's hoping this is finally the one that makes people realize that these things are happening irl.

noir_lord2• 10 years ago

Shrugs, speak for yourself.

I was at a tech talk last week, 40 devs, 1 woman, 39 blokes.

You don't have to be a genius to see there is something off with that ratio.

I've rarely seen more than 1-2 at any of the tech events I've gone to there.

I've also heard the crap some programmers say about women (not all but enough to leave a bad taste).

Prior to working in the tech industry I worked in the retail industry and the gender split was pretty much 50/50.

tomlock17• 10 years ago

See gozur88's comment.

gozur8815• 10 years ago

It's worth repeating: this person received horrific threats because she's good at her job and out teaching others how to use an up-and-coming programming technology.

That's just not believable. There has to be more to the story than that. Nobody gets harassed because they're good at their job and go out teaching others etc, etc.

GFK_of_xmaspast4• 10 years ago

Lots and lots of dudes out there consider "saying things while being a woman" to be a crime against society.

gozur8815• 10 years ago

No, there aren't. What year is this?

The author of this article is leaving something out.

curtis• 10 years ago

Kathy Sierra's "Why the Trolls Will Always Win" might be relevant: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/trolls-will-always-win/.

cyphar3• 10 years ago

It actually does happen to a lot of people. The reason is not "because they're good at their job", its usually because they are people who are in the public eye and are seen as leaders. Some people have a problem with women being leaders and so decide to harass them. Yes, people like that do exist. Jessie is a really awesome hacker and it makes me sad that she left her awesome job (allegedly) because she didn't feel comfortable. I (presumably like you) don't like diversity quotas and all that other bullshit, but denying that people like Jessie are harassed for no reason other than "being a public figure" doesn't help your case.

lacker• 10 years ago

I think it's believable. Go read the Twitch comments when a woman appears on a popular stream.

lillesvin• 10 years ago

I was just about to make the same suggestion. Twitch chat is basically as low as it gets. I have absolutely no problem believing that someone would make death/rape threats out of the blue after seeing how women are treated by a random (large) Twitch chat.

URSpider94• 10 years ago

I'm choosing to interpret this as massive cognitive dissonance between what you would do as a decent human being, and what actually happens "IRL" to women in tech.

Sad to say, I don't think there is more to the story, without just egging on the trolls. Her offense was to be a woman as the public face of a hot new tech, and that's all.

Turning it around, what would she had to have done , in your mind, to elicit death threats and revenge porn? Double parked? Cut in line in front of someone's grandma at the bank?

kyrre• 10 years ago

how was the company supposed to react anonymous people harassing her on IRC?

A Docker engineer got so many threats the company hired security to protect her

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