Feature article by Hermione Way : Today I had a Twitter debate with a woman in tech I highly respect; TechCrunch’s editor Alexia Tsotsis. What I respect about Alexia is that she writes truthfully, never pandering to her abusive audience of trolls who judge her for every word she writes.
It takes big balls to read endless hater comments on your posts from mostly men who decide it’s their job to tell you if your writing sucks or not; I’ve been there and it’s not pretty.
But maybe I was wrong about Alexia as it was surprising to hear her advice for me today about being a woman in tech after I posted a sex-natured Tweet last week. Her advice: “You have two choices, you can either be good at what you do or be a symbol of your sex [as in gender].
“This is the prevalent attitude in the tech industry and it must be taken into account when trying to get actual work done.”