[potato24]

The way i look at it drew just surrounded himself with specific people over the years and then he is surprised to find out they are creeps.

> The hacker community has been the home I never had

That's sad man, you should get real friends.

I also don't understand what sexism/transphobia (which you hate) has to do with anything in relation to the article. As you said these people are(or rather were) clearly your friends.

You guys, this is why seriously have a policy of never listening to programmers in regards to politico-societal issues, I have the same policy for people I meet in anime/comic conventions. I don't want to say its because of autism or something because its not. It's because most of the "nerds" never had many friends growing up or have family issues. And no Internet friends are not real friends.