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by Aunche 3032 days ago
What happened to just letting people deal with their own problems? A lot of people work with managers and coworkers who treat them unfairly, and you can't do anything about it besides be a good person yourself. Sure, women have an even harder time, but that's going to change as society continues to shift as more culturally progressive. Until then, sexist people are going to continue to be sexist.
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I would appreciate if you would explain to me why it is acceptable to ignore injustice because there are other injustices you think you can't do anything about.
These are relatively small and very personal problems. The media portrays it as some great social injustice when it's really just a few people making rude comments. The author claims that we should all be more supportive of women in CS, but there's already a lot of support. At some point, you just have to wait for people to help themselves.
Women having it harder and sexism are small and very personal problems? It's just not true, things are right the opposite. If there was enough support the described situations would not be the norm. It is not enough support until it completely stops. And even then, women will not be compensated for huge damage already done to them, and will still need support due to this fact.