Well, I suppose it's your job to defend YC and remove anything that reflects badly on them on this particular social media platform, but I'll just have to say that I found pg's essay very patronizing and misogynistic. It did not do anything to make YC appear more "diverse" or feminist in my view and if anything did the opposite.
The only thing that's weird and creepy about this entire thing is the rampant misogyny and anti-feminism in the entirety of the tech community and the central dogma that literal tokenism can solve these problems.
That you denounce an essay giving Jessica credit for her work as "patronizing and misogynistic" while defending a comment that was not only both of those things but cartoonishly so, probably takes the cake for this thread.
>that was not only both of those things but cartoonishly so, probably takes the cake for this thread.
I think you're misreading the comment parent, which summarizes the gist of the article and points out that the reading most people will get at first tack is not very charitable towards Jessica. I agree with the comment parent that the article is quite tone-deaf. The whole "she was the mom of the group" is just plain cringeworthy.
You seem to be reading the comment parent as if he's saying "big deal, she was just his girlfriend" but what he's actually saying is, saying "she was a great mom to all of us" is a horrifically tone-deaf anti-feminist statement.
I could be wrong of course but that's my charitable interpretation of the comment parent. It's almost exactly the comment I came here to write, so if the author's intentions are different it's hard for me to see that past the surface-level obviousness of what they're saying.
The only thing that's weird and creepy about this entire thing is the rampant misogyny and anti-feminism in the entirety of the tech community and the central dogma that literal tokenism can solve these problems.