This is fair, but let&#x27;s recognize that the discussion takes place in the context of a few well known individuals who have made an enviably successful career as freelance victims, who stridently prevaricate about the persecution they&#x27;ve experienced in the industry, but by all accounts don&#x27;t actually do any work on technology at all.<p>One wrote a story for a mediocre video game and claims publicly to be a game developer.  Is she a &#x27;woman in tech&#x27;?  It&#x27;s like if I painted a mural on a house during construction this one time and went on claiming a career in carpentry.  But don&#x27;t you dare claim I&#x27;m not legitimately a carpenter, because hey, stop persecuting me!<p>The dichotomy isn&#x27;t false, it&#x27;s quite real and true, and it seems obvious to me that there are a handful of lamentably visible charlatans who are to blame for it.  On the other hand, I could list dozens of women in the industry whose output I greatly respect and they seem to experience great success, but you never hear a peep out of them.  It&#x27;s almost like the more &quot;tangentially involved&quot; one is with tech, the more vocal one becomes about this supposed persecution...