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I agree with you, and before reading yours I wanted to write a less theatrical comment in the same line. I figure people like Appelbaum are making tech a hostile environment for women to work in, like a vicious circle.

The thing that drew my attention was the public comment he made about giving head. Because why would anyone want to work with a person who behaves like that? He probably knows how to pick an audience, but the real explanation came at the end of the article:

"People like Jake can be found in other places (...) Wherever power imbalances, hero worship, and secret-keepers intersect."

And those are places that independent people like to avoid. And that might be an explanation for why so many people never heard of stories like that in their surroundings.