And then you and your space are attacked publicly as being a place where nobody respects focus, men are constantly approaching women, and so on. Or someone blows up after being quietly and kindly asked that for the fifth time in two hours by well-intentioned people who are unfortunately less than omniscient and an article entitled &quot;Woman harassed in hackerspace by brogrammers!&quot; hits Jezebel.<p>Communications failures combined with the human capacity for reinterpretation are a bottomless pit of potential badness.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m just more cynical about people than you.