If there was a tipping point, a moment that crystallized the anger building in San Francisco toward the so-called technorati for driving up housing prices and threatening the city's bohemian identity, it came in response to a diatribe posted online in August by a young Internet entrepreneur. The author, a start-up founder named Peter Shih, listed 10 things he hated about San Francisco. Homeless people, for example. And the "constantly PMSing" weather. And "girls who are obviously 4s and behave like they're 9s." The backlash was immediate. Fliers appeared on telephone poles calling Shih a "woman hatin' nerd toucher." CheapAir offered him a free ticket back to New York. Readers responded that what they hated about San Francisco were "entitled" technology workers like him.
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