Cheryl Rofer@cherylrofer.bsky.social·2026-09-27T16:04:54.937Z
This stuff keeps reminding me of Gamergate. And then I think back further, to when women were the "computers" and then became the main programmers who might be called developers today.
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Faine Greenwood@faineg.com·2026-09-27T16:05:28.275Z#
In some ways it’s worse in that these women now feel pressured to attend weird orgies just to have a career…
Bouba's Delivery Service@fernmonkey.bsky.social·2026-09-27T16:07:37.189Z#
Not to be dramatic, and I know I'm probably asking for it by not starring the vowels out, but it's reminding me of some of the Epstein emails that have come out.
Cheryl Rofer@cherylrofer.bsky.social·2026-09-27T16:11:19.058Z#
Coercive sex as coercion in other areas as well.
Pope Leo's baseball bat 🇺🇦@shitpostwizard.bsky.social·2026-09-27T16:44:00.949Z#
*rape
Buttadeus@thewanderingjew.bsky.social·2026-09-27T16:12:38.878Z#
It’s sort of the reverse I think - the details of the Epstein stuff is unusual, as is the scale, but like the substance is universal
Buttadeus@thewanderingjew.bsky.social·2026-09-27T16:15:32.625Z#
Like, you want a better shift at a diner? Better not complain when the manager grabs your ass.
Bouba's Delivery Service@fernmonkey.bsky.social·2026-09-27T16:19:35.418Z#
Oh, sure, but from the men's perspective, that whole thing about setting up sex parties as a forum for high-powered put-the-world-to-rights discussions is very Epsteinian
Brooke@brooklynmarie.bsky.social·2026-09-27T16:54:24.915Z#
same crowd
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾@blackamazon.bsky.social·2026-09-27T17:53:41.684Z#
I have some really harsh feelings because these are the same people who were okay with the racism even when it was being pointed out AND They did it because despite being women ? They think other women are acceptable currency
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas@ebonyteach.blacksky.app·2026-09-27T18:24:12.205Z#
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Bitten Beads Jewelry @bittenbeadsjewelry.myatproto.social·2026-09-27T18:25:29.226Z#
🎯
Brooke@brooklynmarie.bsky.social·2026-09-27T18:01:16.685Z#
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Famke ❖@dutchdesignheroes.com·2026-09-27T21:35:46.607Z#
It is nothing new, at least not for women. Some men will never get over the fact that they couldn't get you. Other (wo)men will boost your career because you never folded.
Kim@kimoco.bsky.social·2026-09-27T16:58:32.498Z#
I list a ton of commissions in the 80’s when I kneeled my boss who I refused to bed. Same as it ever was today just orgies vs one guy.
Kim@kimoco.bsky.social·2026-09-27T16:58:45.558Z#
I lost a ton.
Emi@emiphemera.bsky.social·2026-09-27T21:39:16.083Z#
"Do xyz sexual thing to have a career" is integral in a lot of industries unfortunately, this is just exceptionally well documented.
Emi@emiphemera.bsky.social·2026-09-27T21:48:51.974Z#
Which is ironic as hell given that AI is creating a dark age!
@kaylarudbek.bsky.social·2026-09-27T16:10:52.516Z#
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, Admiral Grace Hopper, and Countess Ada Lovelace are all spinning in their graves at high velocity over what the computer field has become
Uncivil Servant@noahreday.bsky.social·2026-09-27T17:35:57.005Z#
If I were these guys, I'd be far more scared of Klara von Neumann's Ghost than Roko's Basilisk...
@kaylarudbek.bsky.social·2026-09-27T16:09:05.007Z#
I seriously wonder if this is why I have had such difficulty with my career (I got married in grad school to my college sweetheart and we ride a tandem bicycle together)
@kaylarudbek.bsky.social·2026-09-27T17:40:36.422Z#
The tandem bike is I guess the equivalent of Bujold’s Beta Colony earring code, e.g. the quote ”I am in a monogamous relationship, do not embarrass us both by even asking“ which is kind of ironic as people like to say that a tandem is a divorce machine.
sailorbp@sailorbp.bsky.social·2026-09-27T21:49:22.783Z#
Getting a tandem bike is like taking on other challenging things, either it helps you bond or it exposes fractures that have been covered over… (+1 for the Bujold reference!)
Flavia Elphberg@flaviaelphberg.bsky.social·2026-09-28T02:33:29.004Z#
Jasper (they/them)@octopusowl.bsky.social·2026-09-27T19:16:08.886Z#
Knowing it was engineered by Epstein means his gross DNA is in the silicon valley Rationalist movement.
Liz Highleyman@lizhighleyman.bsky.social·2026-09-27T17:15:08.607Z#
Sadly, this whole thing takes me back to my 20s & the problematic sex & gender relations in the bleeding-edge tech scenes of the 1980s. Same personalities involved, but there’s a *lot* more $$$ & power at play now, making things even more fraught.
Hisses with Geese@dasparky.bsky.social·2026-09-27T17:30:39.770Z#
Jeezus. Glad I was never considered cute enough to be pressured into joining one of these things.
Liz Highleyman@lizhighleyman.bsky.social·2026-09-27T18:26:55.603Z#
I’d hardly be considered conventionally pretty, but as this discussion points out, that kind of bleeds over to all women.
Hisses with Geese@dasparky.bsky.social·2026-09-27T23:19:22.268Z#
Good point.
Batdog@jeffreyschmeffrey.bsky.social·2026-09-27T17:34:47.681Z#
Also pretty sure all these dudes watched Wolf of Wall Street. Sometimes things are that simple
Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat@shaidorsai.bsky.social·2026-09-27T17:18:26.947Z#
I mean, the whole sexed-up persona of Killcreek was very deliberately calculated as a marketing strategy for Id, IIRC.
Brooke@brooklynmarie.bsky.social·2026-09-27T16:54:13.685Z#
same people behind it