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Whilst I would occasionally do that when my commute often walked past some, it's rather ridiculous to suggest in a technical conference or work context, unless
by NeedMoreTea 8y ago
Whilst I would occasionally do that when my commute often walked past some, it's rather ridiculous to suggest in a technical conference or work context, unless they also happen to understand the project we're working, or were booked to speak at the conference.
- belorn 8y agoIf a conference want to invite speakers that has different social economical backgrounds then they can just as easily do so as with different genders. The article is about people conferences could invite. There are people here on HN that has been homeless. Its far from "ridiculous", and suspect some of them would feel a bit offended with that suggestion.
- meghan-maternie 8y agoOkay how about this needmoretea: Close your eyes. Now imagine every male coworker you have is actually female. They are used to only working with mostly women, so you are an oddity. Kind of entertaining. They just hope you can be cool and be “one of the girls”, you know? Does that help expand your universe?
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoI think you misunderstood me here. I was advocating for more diversity and equality in the workplace if you read my grandparent post, which got the absurd response of "if you want diversity go and talk to a homeless person", I responded to as ridiculous. I'm in favour of any increasing in workplace diversity and am thankful the UK workplace is very different to the HN zeitgeist that's more akin to UK attitudes of late 70s or 80s when these discussions crop up. I'm also in favour of the root post's idea of getting more women speaking at conferences. So as ever those views were downvoted here.