📑 Heather Gold on MIT and Epstein

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I will continue to post things about Epstein and give comments from my experience

but sometimes a small tweet is inadequate

and the feelings about HOW TAKEN FOR GRANTED the misogyny of tech has been
that so many men I’ve known don’t see it at all.

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— Heather Gold (@heathr) September 23, 2019

Heather Gold reflects on Twitter on MIT and their association with Jeffrey Epstein. She explains that it simply highlights the problem of gender and power that has been present for so long, but people have learned to work within the constraints.

“You’re gonna have to take it.“

The sentiment of abuse.

The sick pleasure of abuse for the abuser. *Making* you. Your lack of safe choice.

It also applies to a million situations for women working in tech if they want access, belonging, work.(source)

This is something that danah boyd touches upon in her acceptance speech for Barlow/Pioneer Award.