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Sexism isn't specific to any one single place. You try to fix the issues that you can impact, in this case the industry we're in.
by rhcom2 9y ago
Sexism isn't specific to any one single place. You try to fix the issues that you can impact, in this case the industry we're in.
- scrollaway 9y agoWhat makes "the industry we're in" easier to impact than "the country we're in"? And I would say that while sexism isn't specific to any single place, culture is highly impactful on the amount of racism/sexism/homophobia you may experience and this is what changes the most when you go from country to country. A startup in San Francisco will have a very different culture to a mid-size company in Madrid.
- rhcom2 9y agoThe industry is smaller and less resistant to change then the entire country. I also have the ability to affect where I work and my coworkers. I have almost no ability to affect the country besides voting and maybe arguably activism.
- threatofrain 9y agoI get the sense that industry-level change is not as obviously a low-hanging fruit versus government-level change. There's a mechanism operating over the government, but what's the mechanism operating over an industry? A secret cabal of investors?
- rhcom2 9y agoThe individual. You call out shitty behavior, you don't support/work for shitty behavior, you support people dealing with shitty behavior.
- stale2002 9y agoBecause fixing the entire country is a much large problem. Most of the time, when people talk about "lets fix the broader problem not our specific problem", it is mostly an excuse to do nothing, as opposed to an actual attempt to solve the bigger problem. People in tech have both the ability and responsibility to fix issues that directly effect the tech industry. Whereas we don't necessarily have the ability to change worldwide culture as a whole.
- scrollaway 9y agoThe tech industry isn't US-only. What you see in the US is the tip of an iceberg that spans six continents. So again how exactly is it easier to fix something "in the industry" vs. in the country?
- stale2002 9y agoBecause you and me can do our part to help solve the problem here and now. We can make direct contributions by working to solve the problem within our own companies and move the needle that way. It is also because this whole "it is better to solve a different problem" is basically just an excuse to do nothing, by throwing our hands in the air.