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by ta140604 3976 days ago
> The article quotes JAH's email as saying, "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."

From the HN discussion when this happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408492

Article in question: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes...