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For sure I agree that the "ignore the noise and do your own thing" is valid if all you want is to hack on stuff. But I understand feminists (in general) as work
by semi-extrinsic 11y ago
For sure I agree that the "ignore the noise and do your own thing" is valid if all you want is to hack on stuff. But I understand feminists (in general) as working towards changing society for the better, and I fail to see how isolationism accomplishes that.
Historical analogy: do you want to go the Booker T. Washington route, and hope that there will be a Martin Luther King later on? Or do you go the MLK route straight away?
- zem 11y agoit's not isolationism, it's providing a welcoming space for people who have historically lacked one, and ensuring that they are in the majority there. that is absolutely one way to change society for the better. can you think of a way to have a free-for-all hackerspace where women are in the majority? because the dynamics are very different if you are not.