Further to Andromeda's note, 
http://jacobian.org/writing/what-can-men-do/ takes Atwood's post apart 
point by point.
- Greg
> Date:    Sat, 26 Apr 2014 20:46:01 -0400
> From:    Andromeda Yelton <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Diversity
>
> Important: this post was the subject of quite a lot of fury on Twitter,
> being similar to an earlier essay by Shanley Kane of the same title
> https://medium.com/tech-culture-briefs/a1e93d985af0 -- a fact which the
> Coding Horror post initially neglected to attribute.  Sara Chipps, quoted
> in the Coding Horror post, has also publicly expressed displeasure at how
> the original version of the post used her words (I'm not sure whether the
> edits have addressed this).  And people on the autism spectrum have
> expressed some outrage over how they are implicitly blamed for tech sexism
> (something that Shanley did not do in her post, which moreover has more
> suggestions for what you can do).
>
> So I submit that the first thing men (and everyone) can do in this thread
> is read Shanley first.
>
> Andromeda Yelton
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