Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Truth About Witches: An Interview with Katherine Howe:

Katherine Howe is a New York Times bestselling author who recently edited The Penguin Book of Witches, a primary-source reader about witches and witch-hunting ranging from the medieval period into the early eighteenth century.

Read this fascinating piece. Than this one: Thousands of women, accused of sorcery, tortured and executed in Indian witch hunts.

“”The problem here isn’t just that men are ignorant of how women are treated. The problem is that many know exactly what they’re doing to women, and will try to intimidate and silence women who try to fight back.””

– The woman who made a video about catcalling is already getting rape threats.

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I rarely meet a woman in tech who does not have a similar story to share, be it of the venture capitalist who hit on her, the co-worker who makes too many sexual jokes or the boss who doesn’t invite the women on the team to big meetings.

Sometimes the sexism is overt, but more often it seems unintentional — the byproduct of an industry where subtle sexism is so entrenched in the culture that it is unrecognized as sexism in the first place.

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– Tech companies haven’t gotten past sexism 1.0.

“If GamerGate is about ethics among journalists, why is the female developer receiving 14 times as many outraged tweets as the male journalist?”

– Is GamerGate about media ethics or harassing women? Harassment, the data shows.