its not hard to be a man at a tech conference. it is, however, hard to a PERSON at a tech conference. its important to acknowledge the socially destructive chilling effect that all the recent controversies/scandals have caused.

I remember a time were comments like this would be voted down or ignored.

This is the kind of idiocy that just brings everyone down. It would be a better world if we could all agree that this kind of nonsense was no longer acceptable.

Minimizing the pain of others is never right. It is, in fact, one of the underlying problems here.