[LGBT_2000]

Let's be frank, if it was "Eric" rather than "Ellen" Pao (and, even more so, if it were "Smith" rather than "Pao"), we wouldn't be hearing 1/1,000,000th the uproar we've heard about all this.

Nothing drives Angry White Men on The Internet more ballistic than a woman or a person of color in a position of authority. You see the exact same thing with the sheer insanity the right-wing is driven to by President Obama's essentially centrist administration.

[engi_nerd]

Please provide evidence to support your statement, because I do not see how your second and third sentences necessarily follow from the first.

[LGBT_2000]

We unfortunately do not have enough women or people of color in positions of authority for me to provide some rigorous statistics documenting the experiences of a swath of such people (though this gives a good indicator we've got a problem).

However, it seems quite clear to me that minorities in positions of authority or public visibility face a level of vitriol unlike that experienced by some boring old white guy. Look at the level of hatred directed towards Hilary Clinton or Barack Obama; look at the hatred directed towards a woman trying to present at a tech conference; look at the death threats Anita Sarkeesian has received for making YouTube videos on video games.

[dudul]

I love your parody of delusional sjw. Very authentic. If only you had mentioned the patriarchy! It would have been sjw bingo.