Having brunch in Portreo Hill this morning and confronted with some casual blatant sexism. Two dudes, dude1 talking about his company / startup:
D1: yeah, we just hired $female-presenting-name, and
D2: makes negative cringe noise, [mumble, unintelligible]
D1: no, it’s great but it’s because she’s just like a dude….
She’s fitting in so well, but it’s only because she’s just like one of the boys.
Like the other night she was in the office until 9 or so, even after $male-presenting-name.
D2: oh?
D1: But like the only reason she was there so late was that here boyfriend was busy.
I shouldn’t be surprised. I live in SF and tech is gonna tech. But I want to believe it’s going to get better for the next generation, but I have little to no faith in that. D1 was maybe 30. Other guy was maybe 32-33 at most. This mentality is still entrenched in tech and being perpetuated. They’re out here saying it will their full chest over eggs benny on a Sunday.
It’s just fucking depressing.
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