Richard Stallman is the reason I didn’t start contributing to open source (then called “free software”) in the 90s. I’m not the only one. He and his followers pushed out a whole generation of female developers, just at that critical time when open source adoption was widening.https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/993677847280562178 …
I've been in many "toxic" environments and I'm thankful for them. They make me stronger and I don't expect people to baby me. I expect the same from other. This behavior they point to is just weak. I've taken worse.