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He's saying that if the top 3 people in the field happen to be male, then yes, he'd prefer them over 2 of them and 1 random women added for the sake of diversit

• mikeash 10y ago
  Conferences usually have way more than three speakers, and the context is clearly talking about actual real-world conferences, where indeed the lineup is often 100% male. And they're implying that this typically happens because they're the most qualified. Agreed that this is ridiculous. This is a pretty mild bit of satire, but a ton of people here are going out of their way to be offended by it. It's a great example of how many men are completely oblivious to the advantages they receive.
  • teamhappy 10y ago
    I had a panel in mind, not an entire conference (we had a similar discussion in Germany a year or two ago about all-male panels). I got them mixed up for some reason. -- edit -- I just remembered something; wasn't there a post going around the web some time ago about a woman (in Britain?) who got her talk accepted (in some sort of academic setting?) because she's a woman and not because of her talk and she didn't know that this kind of thing was going on and got really upset about it when she found out? Might be interesting to look at the situation from her angle as well. (Interesting to those of you who didn't read her story back then.)