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Nevertheless, Ali Coded

Trigger Warning: graphic sexual content, racism, sexual harassment

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Nevertheless, Ali coded. And wrote about it online.

last year's version of this post

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Peter Kim Frank

These messages are infuriating, disgusting, and awful.

I admire your strength for pushing on and inspiring so many others despite this constant stream of harassment. ๐Ÿ’œ

Thank you for sharing the ugly truth about what it means to be a prominent woman in tech. It's an important (if not disturbing) wake-up call to anyone out there who refuses to recognize that this sort of awful harassment goes on every single day.

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Ali Spittel

๐Ÿ’œ

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Emma Bostian โœจ

Love you for posting this!

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Ali Spittel

โค๏ธ

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Tori Crawford • Edited

This was such a difficult thing to read as a woman who has dealt with sexual harassment as well.

What makes me really upset is the screenshots are from essentially every platform (Twitter, Gmail, LinkedIn, etc.). A woman isn't safe from a man's unwanted passes on anything nowadays. It's ridiculous and I'm sorry that you have to deal with this nonsense. I applaud you for being so strong and continuing to create amazing content for those of us who love hearing and learning from you despite all this unwanted attention year after year. You are an amazing person, Ali. Don't let anyone ever let you think otherwise.

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Ali Spittel

โค๏ธ

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Ridhwana Khan

Wow, I'm so sorry that all of this happened to you. These messages are appalling ๐Ÿ˜ž Nevertheless, you coded.... and you're doing amazingly!

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Ali Spittel

โค๏ธ

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Corey McCarty • Edited

Did I just witness a seizure stroke amidst erotic role play? All of this is terrible, but I can't get that one out of my head. Not only is it absolutely disgusting to send that unsolicited, but I'm seriously concerned for the brain that strung those words together.

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Ali Spittel

He sent a different version of the erotica to one of my close friends too, so bizarre.

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Corey McCarty

can we raise money to get all of these guys an intro to grammar book?

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Paula

more like an "intro to how to be a decent human being" book

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Michael Tharrington

This is a seriously disappointing collection of disrespectful, demeaning, and downright gross comments. ๐Ÿ˜ž

Thanks for bringing this up and sharing your experience!

People really need to be reminded about the reality of what it's all too frequently like to work in this industry as a female developer. Thanks for persevering through this hate.

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Jason C. McDonald

Ahh, the annual rogue's gallery of terrible comments. Thanks for posting this, as always. It's terrible that so many bigots exist...but at least you're able to turn them around and use them to educate the rest of the world that gender discrimination DOES exist today in tech.

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Vicki Langer

๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ฉ๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿคข๐Ÿคฎ๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿคฌ๐Ÿคฌ

Such an important thing to share. Why do people think this is okay?! I hope this will help show people this is a real thing that happens. Iโ€™m so sorry it happened at all.

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Jean-Michel ๐Ÿ•ต๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Fayard • Edited

Well well well.

If I was the author of one of those shameful messages, I would be really grateful that you took the time to blurry my name when you had the option to show my cowardice to the world. And I would contact you to say that I'm sorry and will try hard to not be stupid in the future.

And to the dudes working at Twitter, Reddit and other fake "social" platforms where this shit is endemic:

Hey guys, are you not embarassed to be part of this? What the fuck are you waiting for? Stop with the excuses. Voice your opinion internally until they do something. Or fire you. And then write about it.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Appreciate you sharing this โค๏ธ

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Ali Spittel

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