From "Francesca V." <> Date Wed, 24 Jul 2013 03:49:19 -0600 Subject Speaking out against Sarah Sharp Sarah Sharp recently posted a tirade about verbal abuse on here and

her blog - where she dismisses all comments disagreeing with her as

being from trolls, and deletes them - and takes pride in being

"accidentally racist", when she's not attention-whoring on the LKML.



I want to say, as a female developer: Sarah Sharp is not

representative of us. She's not representative of the women at Intel.

She's not representative of women in technology.



She's a bully. She bullies her husband. She dismisses bullying of her

coworkers. (Google: 'intel kick me'). And she's trying to bully Linus.



I know he's a big boy. But dare I say, Linus is too nice to tell this

drama queen to bugger off.



No one was talking to her. Linus' 'Shut the fuck up' was to a

developer who refused to take responsibility for his code, and blamed

someone else's code. It was deserved criticism. Then, Linus went and

explained just that:



"Similarly, you will see fireworks if some long-term maintainer makes

excuses for breaking user space etc. That will make me go into

incoherent rages."



Which is exactly what the emails held up as "verbal abuse" show.



Sarah's exclaiming how she won't take any of this abuse, yet no one

was directing any of it at her. It's sickening she's got nothing

better to do then stick her nose in and decide to dictate to her

betters how to behave. Yes I said her betters: We all run Linux. Not

Sarax.



Sarah justifies pissing in the Linux sandbox because Intel 'pays her'

to develop kernel drivers. Perhaps her direct manager might rethink

this decision in light of how she's representing Intel in her "off"

time.



To Linus: You're a hero to many of us. Don't change. Please. You DO

NOT need to take time away from doing code to grow a pair of breasts

and judge people's emotional states:



"It does not matter if your cursing fits have causes. The fact is that

if you misjudge someone's emotional state for the day, you yelling at

them is not productive."



As a woman, I couldn't be silent and stand by while Sarah bullied and

assaulted this list with her profanity and self-indulgent narcissism.

She's the problem. Not you. Not your style of communication. We

technical women appreciate being treated equally by our male peers,

with blunt directness and unambiguous criticism. We are not fragile flowers.



We can do our jobs without demanding others interact with us on our

terms and tiptoe around our fragile egos while being considerate of

our ever changing emotional needs.



I promise you, it's true. We're not all Sarah Sharps.



I see a lot of the devs including Linus handling her with kid gloves

to be diplomatic. Don't. If you want to be really nice, maybe drop an

email to her direct manager extending an apology for how hurtful it

was to her, having to observe others having a conversation in which

she wasn't involved. Managers like hearing about that.



We love you Linus, just the grumptastic way you are. Don't change how

you interact, especially because of Sarah Sharp and her ilk. Please and

thanks..





