I assume you are genuinely curious, not just trying to dismiss Ali's (and other women's) experience, so I am responding.
When a man acts that way in response to a woman sharing technical content, he does two things:
1) Takes focus away from the woman's expertise and credentials, and
2) Shifts focus into himself and his own (sexual/romantic) interests
This does not happen in isolation, but adds up to all the biases, discrimination, stereotypes, and objectification that women have to constantly fight the whole time ("women have poor technical skills", "women are meant for domestic work", "women exist for men's sexual pleasure", etc— ofc these sentiments are usually phrased more subtly, but that's the drift).
As such, at the very least these acts are harmful because they emphasize and perpetuate objetification undergone by women.
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I assume you are genuinely curious, not just trying to dismiss Ali's (and other women's) experience, so I am responding.
When a man acts that way in response to a woman sharing technical content, he does two things:
1) Takes focus away from the woman's expertise and credentials, and
2) Shifts focus into himself and his own (sexual/romantic) interests
This does not happen in isolation, but adds up to all the biases, discrimination, stereotypes, and objectification that women have to constantly fight the whole time ("women have poor technical skills", "women are meant for domestic work", "women exist for men's sexual pleasure", etc— ofc these sentiments are usually phrased more subtly, but that's the drift).
As such, at the very least these acts are harmful because they emphasize and perpetuate objetification undergone by women.