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I shared this story with my company (90% women). Not a single person here has ever experienced anything as overtly sexist as this. They all agree though that th
by leesalminen 9y ago
I shared this story with my company (90% women). Not a single person here has ever experienced anything as overtly sexist as this. They all agree though that they would've quit on the spot and found another job.
This issue certainly isn't found in every tech company and I'd argue that it isn't even most.
There's also selection bias (is that what this is called?) in that folks write blog posts about these kinds of negative experiences but very few write blog posts saying "my team is great, everyone is respectful and we all get along swimmingly."
- rimliu 9y agoMaybe not many consider sharing the video with the word "fuck" in it sexist? We use WTF quite a lot, I'd never ever even dream to think about it as something sexist. Edit: my bad, I missed the part in which context that repsonse was posted. It changes the perspective a lot.
- leesalminen 9y agoI think there's a difference between saying WTF (in Slack, or wherever) and replying "We don't give a fuck" in response to an article about sexism in the work place. At my company WTF is acceptable language but saying you don't care about a coworker's valid concern is not.
- waterlink 9y agoThe video "We don't give a fuck" was shared as a response to the author sharing a link to "an article on why so many women leave engineering".
- Xoros 9y agoActually it's not "fuck" but, word for word, "we beat our bollocks", which is a French equivalent of "we don't give a fuck"
- sweetyclem 9y agoHi Rimliu ! The video can be translated to "we don't give a fuck" but it literally means "we whip our balls with it" :p