The hyper-gendering of women in Silicon Valley is predictable and awful

A helpful note to the men of the tech capital: I don't consider being female my primary identifier or interest. Let's talk about something else

The Silicon Valley season premiere panel was eight men and one woman, and anyone could predict what would happen.

The interviewer onstage asked each man questions about the popular HBO show satirizing Silicon Valley's tech boom. He asked the creator, Mike Judge, what inspired the show; asked a main character whether he knew it would be such a hit; asked an actor how much his comedic riffs got into the final cut. And then he turned to the one woman on stage, Amanda Crew: