I'm still trying to figure out why there aren't more women in tech.

Although you may have just figured out why there aren't more women in tech in Austin.

After proclaiming that she deserves extra money to compensate her for the displeasure of working in Austin, she shouldn't expect to feel welcome here. She made her bed, and she can lie in it. The hostility and disrespect I communicated were intentional, not motivated by her sex, and, in my opinion, a modest and proportional response to what she wrote.

@a3camero, I admit that as someone from the south, I should know better than to say "darling." I reached for a patronizing term and used it without ism-checking it. Serves me right for being nasty. It's hard to be offensive to one person without inflicting unintentional and regrettable collateral damage. I apologize.

Lolwat. No one proclaimed any such thing. Sorry to break it to you, darling, but your reading comprehension skills need work.

I meant the "darling" thing, but I'm from Ontario where that would be an unusual thing to say and probably sexist.

Maybe it isn't in Texas, in which case, my apologies. Texas is on my list of places to visit and if darling is actually used in a way that isn't sexist, well you just bumped it up a bit more on my travel list!

No, it's sexist in Austin too. For sure.

And in Texas it's "darl'n".

Communicating hostility and disrespect and patronizing your opponent is not the best way to participate in a rational discussion.