Here are some additional details posted yesterday night.

Solution: Ignore them

what a great recipe to end harassment and improve the tech industry.

What does this have to do with the industry? It means we need to be more vigilant about checking our attitudes and expectations regarding women.... for example... by dismissing them by insisting that they should ignore these sorts of threats.

Ignoring threats has really not fared well in other female unfriendly industries such as gaming and comics. Rape and Death threats are usually only the beginning, and the only way for them to stop is if these women withdraw their voices from the community altogether.

I honestly don't know the solution to the toxic misogynist problem, but telling women to keep quiet isn't the answer.

I'd be real careful with that sort of talk dude. You sound pretty out of touch.

This ain't 4chan y'know.

I'm sorry - this is really unfair and a rather disturbing attitude I have noticed in our industry. I really don't tolerate making excuses for this kind of disgusting behavior.

If you honestly think all this amounts to a simple "waaaaah" (as you describe it) - this including sexual harassment of all forms and complete degradation of a colleague, then please go to the gaming industry where this attitude is more widely accepted.

Why anyone should have to tolerate threats or rape and death in any environment, especially in the office, demonstrates the same level of insensitivity and sexism seen in her coworkers' behaviors.

Who are you to tell someone to simply ignore this kind of behavior and belittle her serious problems to nothing more than a "rage post"? Are you kidding?

Why do you feel that downplaying someone else's claims is helpful?

Your attitude towards this issue is one of the major problems. No one should have to endure the kind of crap women deal with in this and many other industries and your instant dismissal of this issue says a lot. Just because you've never experienced this doesn't mean the problem isn't real.

Seriously! I came here to say "wait, where do these people even come from" only to see it in action.

Really disheartening.

Here's my hypothesis (which is only a hypothesis). I'm speaking as someone who came from a very standard (read: low quality) southwestern public high school, then attended a private north eastern engineering school, and then has worked for a time in Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley, as a physical location and as an industry, is homogenous in the obvious ways, but also in very deep "life story" types of ways. Basically, if you go into a bar in Silicon Valley, 90% of people you'll meet are males, 20 - 30 years old, earning $120k+, who attended one of the same 20 schools as everyone else (Stanford, MIT, UIUC, UMich, Berkeley, RPI, CMU, Cornell, et al.), who worked instead of partied in high school, and quite frankly, a lot of people who were bullied or excluded for the first half of their lives.

The people at schools like that survived puberty by telling themselves "the 'cool kids' can party now, some day I'll be more successful than them." And they're right! Now they pack up and go to SV, make fantastic money, buy nice cars, and expensive (but equally ugly) New Balance running shoes for nights at the cocktail bar. Don't ask why people go out in New Balances and jeans, that's just the Palo Alto way.

And then what do they discover? Contrary to the media-fueled popular belief, money cannot buy women. These men can be winning in everything and yet still not "get women."

Why is this? It certainly has nothing to do with their pretentiousness towards their coworkers, competitors, and potential romantic partners. It couldn't be their lack of basic hygiene or base level of effort towards appearances. And there's no way an early adulthood defined by reclusiveness and introversion could possibly lead to a lack of realistic expectations when it comes to members of the opposite sex.

It's obviously that "women are all bitches" and they're reluctant to give to the newly successful ex-recluses what "they're owed." A romantic partner is the remaining unconquerable summit for the "successful nerd."

Please, let's not derail this with a #NotAllMen argument :)

It sounds like there are a few twisted people and a whole lot of people who are okay with allowing those few to continue on their twisted ways.

This is the case with literally every injustice: perpetrated by few, permitted by many.

The article references 'Women in Tech' - so it's the tech industry - sysops, programmers, etc

Well, someone had to "design" blood on her body, sounds like. Either way, this totally depresses me.

It's not the design industry. It's a HN repost

It definitely happens within the design industry as well.