Zach Holman makes a very solid point in the wake of the most recent wave of realisations that the tech industry is filled with misogynistic shitheads. The “throw women at the problem” approach to fixing the tech industry simply isn’t the right way about it, and it obviously isn’t working. It has to start somewhere else.

Fundamentally, the assholes who ruin it for everyone else need to either go, or change their behavior in major ways and own up to their past mistakes in a genuine manner. I must say, I’m pretty pleased to see a few of the most gnarly examples I’ve had the chance to interact with get theirs in recent time – including a few who have been smelling their own farts hard in public.

However, while this is all well and good, it shouldn’t be the women’s job to make this happen. There are enough “good guys” in this industry, that we should be able to call these people out and solve it within our own “ranks¹.” Or at least, that’s how it should be – and we should kind of all be embarrassed that this hasn’t been the case. Sure, that gun-wielding founder is mercurial and scary and all, but whatever happened to doing the right thing? The industry as a whole spends so much time talking about “changing the world for the better,” that surely, this must be part of the agenda too.

I mean, the whole industry can’t possibly be this deranged… right?