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What could possibly go wrong ? I took up space, used my sexuality as a tool, and demanded attention. These were the survival skills that I h...

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What could possibly go wrong?

I took up space, used my sexuality as a tool, and demanded attention. These were the survival skills that I had learned to harness as a ticket out. And these are the very same skills that have allowed me to succeed professionally and get access to tremendous privilege. I have paid a price for some of the games that I have played, but I can’t deny that I’ve gained a lot in the process.

I have also come to understand that my survival strategies were completely infuriating to many geeky white boys that I encountered in tech. Many guys saw me as getting ahead because I was a token woman. I was accused of sleeping my way to the top on plenty of occasions. I wasn’t simply seen as an alpha — I was seen as the kind of girl that screwed boys over. And because I was working on diversity and inclusion projects in computer science to attract more women and minorities as the field, I was seen as being the architect of excluding white men.

The remarkable thing isn't that SJWs engage in these reprehensible behaviors. It's that so few of them are able to understand why the very people they are attacking, and whose lives they are attempting to destroy, could possibly object to them doing so.