No Longer an Inspiration
Unfortunately, this is the kind of thing we can expect <i>a lot</i> more of in the coming months and perhaps years as the "tech media" continue to attack it from the fringes.<p>You are damned if you do and damned if you don't. There is no satiating the thirst from the "tech media" for faux outrage driven clicks.<p>This is a woman in tech, but more specifically she is a techie in tech. She has been assimilated into the normality of the modern tech industry and is participating in a highly competitive, skill driven arena.<p>Make no mistake, any company that does not behave as the organisers of this hackathon here - not actively displaying an organised, certainly biased, effort to promote the "Women in Tech" narrative - are open to being squatted on from above from the "moral highground" occupied by the tech media.<p>This is what happens when you attack meritocracy in the name of making people feel good. It is what happens when you create an unrelenting narrative that continually assaults an industry over how many or few people with a penis or vagina they have in it. It is what happens when you've an industry surrounded by "journalists" who've never spent an actual day in it, ready to fire out articles shaming you for your lack of, or apparent abundance of, penises or vaginas in your company.<p>The author here is simply another bystander to the continued assault on the technology industry.