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"introduces himself to the men in a group but ignores the women" A truly terrible thing is that I see this happening even in other contexts that have nothing t

"introduces himself to the men in a group but ignores the women" A truly terrible thing is that I see this happening even in other contexts that have nothing to do with work. Sometimes women are just ignored for the first part of the conversation, or men will just look at other men when saying something. I hate it, it's deeply offensive, however the cool thing is that it takes just a single person to change the shape of the conversation and include everybody. P.S. the same thing is observed often with teenagers as well, which is equally disgusting.

hueving 9y ago
>I hate it, it's deeply offensive Deeply offensive, really? You must be exhausted from being so deeply offended all of the time. It's hyperbolic language like this that is really divisive because it makes people defensive when you're putting their actions in the same category of murders and violence (the "deeply offensive" category).
- imartin2k 9y ago
  The "offensive" attribute aside (which I also have issues with in many contexts), doesn't antirez have a point?
  - Pica_soO 9y ago
    Social terror until everyone is on his/her toes and the resources are redistributed not according to achievement/risk&reward - but how high you are on the ladder in the new church of social progression? Is there a way to opt out of your version of society?
  - belorn 9y ago
    In order for antirez to have a point, let assume we built an experimental environment with cameras to observe how people behave. Let say we want to observe how eye contact is being made, in which order, and to whom and at what rate when a test person enters a group to introduce themselves. Variables we adjust are among things like hight, age, gender of test subject, gender distribution of the test group, appearance of strength, social economical status signals, gait, posture, and olfaction. Then we take a base line, and compare that to when we change a single variable. The question to be answered is: which variable has no effect, which variable has biggest effect, and what is the underlying reason when an variable has an effect.

hueving 9y ago

>I hate it, it's deeply offensive Deeply offensive, really? You must be exhausted from being so deeply offended all of the time. It's hyperbolic language like this that is really divisive because it makes people defensive when you're putting their actions in the same category of murders and violence (the "deeply offensive" category).

imartin2k 9y ago
The "offensive" attribute aside (which I also have issues with in many contexts), doesn't antirez have a point?
- Pica_soO 9y ago
  Social terror until everyone is on his/her toes and the resources are redistributed not according to achievement/risk&reward - but how high you are on the ladder in the new church of social progression? Is there a way to opt out of your version of society?
- belorn 9y ago
  In order for antirez to have a point, let assume we built an experimental environment with cameras to observe how people behave. Let say we want to observe how eye contact is being made, in which order, and to whom and at what rate when a test person enters a group to introduce themselves. Variables we adjust are among things like hight, age, gender of test subject, gender distribution of the test group, appearance of strength, social economical status signals, gait, posture, and olfaction. Then we take a base line, and compare that to when we change a single variable. The question to be answered is: which variable has no effect, which variable has biggest effect, and what is the underlying reason when an variable has an effect.