Plaintiff in Google case gets restraining order against former contractor

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Another sexist pig giving tech a bad name

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One of the women suing Google for allegedly paying women less than men has come under attack from a former Google contractor who tweeted, among other things, that she deserved to be raped.

Saying she felt threatened, Kelly Ellis, a former Google software engineer locked in a high-profile legal battle with the Mountain View technology giant over its salary practices, received a temporary restraining order Wednesday in Superior Court in San Francisco against Alex Gulakov, 26.

Ellis, 33, alleged in her court filing that Gulakov targeted her for speaking out about gender issues and said he had included links about her Google lawsuit in online diatribes against her.

Ellis’ new legal action highlights a growing cultural conflict in the male-dominated technology industry, which has been at the center of a public debate over gender and diversity — from 2014’s “Gamergate” death threats against developer Zoe Quinn, to the sexual-harassment allegations in a public blog post by former Uber engineer Susan Fowler that helped oust former CEO Travis Kalanick, to the memo by subsequently fired Googler James Damore, who argued there was a biological basis for the lack of women in tech.

This irritates me.  We need women in tech.  We don't need douche cannons with insufficient personalities.  And a lot of times it's hard enough being an IT contractor with out douche cannons like Gulakov "helping" us along.