Harassment at Apple: A personal perspective
I think commenters who are reacting negatively to this story are reacting to the vocabulary rather than the story.<p>Obviously I'm not a witness, but I tend to believe that these events took place more or less as the author describes them.<p>At the same time, words like "sexism" and phrases like "as a minority..." are a big turn-off to some readers, myself included.  This isn't because I don't believe in racism/sexism/xenophobia, it's because we're never going to be able to agree on definitions for those terms and so they end up being almost useless as descriptors.<p>I would put this in almost literary terms: I don't want events to be described, I want them to be recounted.  This is also how I feel about movies and literature: I want novels/screenplays that "show rather than tell."  I don't want to be told how to think about an event, I just want it to be presented to me.<p>I also believe that categorizing your personal experiences in terms of broader social phenomena is a mistake.  In my opinion, this kind of thinking leads to generalization and tends to obscure the actual events that took place and the actors involved.<p>All that aside, absolute sympathy to the author here.  It's incomprehensible to me that people can behave like this, but sadly they do.