+Peter Senna Tschudin asked (about the Pycon incident): “What I can’t understand, and I would like help to understand, is how talking about big dongles to a friend in a conference can become a real problem to a women who is listening. Why did she felt uncomfortable about that? Did she felt threatened? How the dongle size talking could turn into something against her? Can the content of the two guys talking be considered a lack of respect? What are the limits to what can be considered offensive?”
I’m going to take you at face value, and assume you really do want to understand how making simple jokes can cause issues for women in tech. I’m making this a post, because I think lots of my male friends are worried about cracking jokes right now.