Writing about FOSS sexism

“But the real flood of emotion comes from the anti-feminists and
the average men who would like to deny the importance of feminist
issues in FOSS. Raise the subject of sexism, and you are met with
illogic that I can only compare to that of the tobacco companies
trying to deny the link between their products and cancer.

“Because I took a feminist stance, I have been abused in every
way possible — being called irrelevant, a saboteur, coward,
homosexual, and even a betrayer of the community. I know that many
women in the community have been attacked much more savagely than I
have, so I’m not complaining. Nor am I stranger to readers who
disagree with me, but the depth of reaction has taken me back more
than once. I think the reaction is an expression of denial more
than anything else.”

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