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This, this, this. Men profit far too much from harassment to ever want to do anything to solve it. Entire generations of deeply mediocre white cis men have succeeded in academia exclusively because they use violence (implied, threatened, or actualized) to push everyone else out.

discuss.systems/@irene/1140769

discuss.systemsIrene Zhang (@irene@discuss.systems)If you want to start fixing issues with harassment, I’d strongly recommend looking at Nicole Bedera’s work. The upshot is that we haven’t fixed the harassment issue in tech/academia because we don’t want to. https://discuss.systems/@irene/114076932984179831
Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

Incidentally, many of the men who seem to be more competent only appear that way because they used harassment to steal work from more competent marginalized folks.