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This thread is basically people stumbling over themselves trying to defend how this is NOT sexist or justify the varying degrees of sexism. Some of the fun exa

This thread is basically people stumbling over themselves trying to defend how this is NOT sexist or justify the varying degrees of sexism. Some of the fun examples: - men get talked over too! (doesn't mean this isn't sexist) - he's just an asshole (doesn't mean he's not a sexist asshole) - that woman is just looking for a social justice moment (how about the rest of the audience?)

exodust 9y ago
There's no evidence of sexism though. You've been swept up by the tide of Facebook outrage and that's good enough for you to settle on your verdict. I watched the video and found evidence of him treating her equally....try 27:05 for starters. The actual incident was just a moderator being clumsy. You've taken that and thrown sexism in there because, why... you need a victim to cheer for and an industry to scorn? I don't get your motivation when there is clearly no evidence of sexism.
tnone 9y ago
No this thread is a response to obvious and blatant grievance mongering about one anecdote. If you don't want to be interrupted, keep talking. If the moderator is an ass, he's an ass. If you expect to always be treated with respect by default, a) you're privileged and b) you're deluded. Those men probably learnt to assert themselves because if they didn't, they'd be invisible. The woman on the other hand learned that if she waits long enough, someone will stand up for her and everyone will applaud. So the cycle continues, that those whose problems are automatically taken seriously by most are those who are the least self sufficient and the most coddled. Hacker culture and the internet doesn't apply this rule so much, most of all because physical attractiveness and charisma is usually out of the picture. What's that line again, about how when you're used to privilege, equal treatment feels like oppression? Strange how nobody examines it in both directions.

exodust 9y ago

There's no evidence of sexism though. You've been swept up by the tide of Facebook outrage and that's good enough for you to settle on your verdict. I watched the video and found evidence of him treating her equally....try 27:05 for starters. The actual incident was just a moderator being clumsy. You've taken that and thrown sexism in there because, why... you need a victim to cheer for and an industry to scorn? I don't get your motivation when there is clearly no evidence of sexism.

tnone 9y ago

No this thread is a response to obvious and blatant grievance mongering about one anecdote. If you don't want to be interrupted, keep talking. If the moderator is an ass, he's an ass. If you expect to always be treated with respect by default, a) you're privileged and b) you're deluded. Those men probably learnt to assert themselves because if they didn't, they'd be invisible. The woman on the other hand learned that if she waits long enough, someone will stand up for her and everyone will applaud. So the cycle continues, that those whose problems are automatically taken seriously by most are those who are the least self sufficient and the most coddled. Hacker culture and the internet doesn't apply this rule so much, most of all because physical attractiveness and charisma is usually out of the picture. What's that line again, about how when you're used to privilege, equal treatment feels like oppression? Strange how nobody examines it in both directions.