brilliantly disruptive

I think part of the reason we’re stuck here is that we’re understanding the problem [of women in tech] incorrectly. When I hear people talk about it, they use words like “encourage,” “support” and “nurture.” We advise companies to do a better job of “looking after” or “caring about” their women employees. We categorize the problem as though it were an issue of corporate social responsibility and as if we really believed women aren’t good enough and need coddling or remedial help. That doesn’t fit my experience. The women I know in tech are tough, resilient and skilled. They have to be, to have pushed through the barriers to get to where they are. Like Charlotte Whitton said, back when she was mayor of Ottawa in the middle of the last century: “Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.” (And then she added: “Luckily that’s not hard.”) The women who quit tech aren’t fragile. I think they’re fed up.

bon iver - beach baby (via  reflexes: malissssa texturism)

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.