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How does anyone even know what color or sex someone is on SO? Seems like those people are either imagining it or they're generally intimidated by programmers an
by lopmotr 9y ago
How does anyone even know what color or sex someone is on SO? Seems like those people are either imagining it or they're generally intimidated by programmers and their typical arrogant or blunt attitudes everywhere.
- ceejayoz 9y agoI saw an example a while back of an SO question about "how should I store gender (sex) in a database". Conflating the two may alienate or upset a transgender individual, without the participants in the Q&A ever being aware of that person. Maybe they're a new user with no ability to comment to point it out, and they just head elsewhere from then on. Similarly, if minority groups are more prone to imposter syndrome, it may be that aggressive and blunt answers impact them disproportionately. In both of these cases, it needn't be intentional or directed at any particular individual to have a disproportionate impact on a group of people. Just as a group can get a reputation of being a "boys club" without explicit "no girls" rules.
- retrogradeorbit 9y agoMake sure to get all 176 in that dropdown, just to be sure.
- DanBC 9y ago> How does anyone even know what color or sex someone is on SO? SO allows profile images. Are you saying POC and women should never use photos of themselves?