This post will be flag-killed soon, and rightly so (I'm flagging it myself), as these discussions usually bring out the worst in the HN community, with some truly amazing displays of unchecked misogyny.
My opinion: absolutely not. Right now tech -- especially software, especially in the Bay Area -- is suffering from extreme sexism. That sexism is real, measurable, and hurts the industry tremendously. Sexism and privacy are the top two political concerns of the software industry at this point in time. Anyone disputing that is either burying their head in the sand or unaware of what sexism is. Software is currently the only white-collar industry where women participation has been consistently dropping for over two decades. Sure, whenever there's a just cause, it can be taken too far. But so far, the verbal abuse directed towards some white men in the industry -- occasionally perhaps unjustifiably -- is puny compared to the damage sexism has caused our industry.
Also, I don't like the term political correctness, as it's just a pejorative used to denote any cause that you disagree with or consider unimportant enough.
My opinion: absolutely not. Right now tech -- especially software, especially in the Bay Area -- is suffering from extreme sexism. That sexism is real, measurable, and hurts the industry tremendously. Sexism and privacy are the top two political concerns of the software industry at this point in time. Anyone disputing that is either burying their head in the sand or unaware of what sexism is. Software is currently the only white-collar industry where women participation has been consistently dropping for over two decades. Sure, whenever there's a just cause, it can be taken too far. But so far, the verbal abuse directed towards some white men in the industry -- occasionally perhaps unjustifiably -- is puny compared to the damage sexism has caused our industry.
Also, I don't like the term political correctness, as it's just a pejorative used to denote any cause that you disagree with or consider unimportant enough.