Aram Zucker-Scharff

“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. 

“It’s all about freedom, she said, echoing everyone who thinks there’s nothing ironic about claiming that a country that’s “free” allows people’s bosses to dictate what medical care is available to them through insurance.”

– “Law Will Allow Employers to Fire Women for Using Whore Pills.”

“”It’s not just bros and jocks and finance dudes and yuppies and Christians and Republicans who are shitty to women. Being part of a counter-cultural or progressive community does not give you a free pass to be shitty to women without being called out on it. We need to hold our own communities to an even higher standard than we hold those in the opposition, we need to welcome criticism, and we to realize that the ones who call out shitty behavior in these communities are not the threat, but that those who protect it and shield it from criticism are.””

– On sexism, sexual assault and the threat of the ‘non-bro’.

“”It’s less about what you say directly and explicitly to employees that creates or destroys a culture. It’s what they take from what you say. And I am not surprised that someone inside the company took Kalanick’s callous attitude towards female riders […] to mean that shocking level of exploitation and disrespect was appropriate — that it would even be celebrated by HQ.””

– The horrific trickle down of Asshole culture at a company like Uber.