&gt; As long as I have enough good friends, I don&#x27;t really care what anyone else thinks of me.<p>That&#x27;s the definition of desiring inclusion.<p>If all of those friends that accepted you were marketing majors and not computer scientists the odds you&#x27;d pursue computer science goes way down. Particularly if the computer scientists <i>were</i> the bullies.<p>The point of the article is the computer (and in her case physics&#x2F;science) culture was <i>hostile</i> to women, not inclusive.