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Our peers in the web industry who just happen to be women regularly face difficulties and indignities for no other reason than that they happen to be women. In
by jpadvo 16y ago
Our peers in the web industry who just happen to be women regularly face difficulties and indignities for no other reason than that they happen to be women. In terms of treating men and women as equals, we're decades behind most of the rest of the professional world.
It makes no sense, it is obnoxious, and GoDaddy spends millions every year to make it worse.
Edit: You are right, of course, that men are often degraded in advertisements. And it does irk me. But the vast majority of the time women get hit a lot harder than we do. This is especially true in computer-related lines of work.
- mindcrime 16y agoOur peers in the web industry who just happen to be women regularly face difficulties and indignities for no other reason than that they happen to be women. In terms of treating men and women as equals, we're decades behind most of the rest of the professional world. Maybe it's just blind-luck, or some other bias, but I just don't see it. I've worked in IT, and more specifically in the software industry, for 15 years or so now, and I haven't seen this gender based discrimination (in the workplace anyway). Having worked for little small companies that nobody has ever heard of, to IBM and Red Hat, I've worked with a large number of really talented female software developers, and I don't see them routinely complaining that they're being discriminated against. I'm not saying it never happens, mind you, but I do question the veracity of this assertion: "In terms of treating men and women as equals, we're decades behind most of the rest of the professional world." In any case, I'm all for equality, but I'm also all for acknowledging human nature. Men like hot women, women like men with money and power. So be it...
- jdp23 16y agoOr, maybe it's happening and you're just not seeing it.
- jpadvo 16y ago"In any case, I'm all for equality, but I'm also all for acknowledging human nature. Men like hot women, women like men with money and power." I'm also for recognizing human nature. Like the fact that women like hot men, some men like women with money and power, and some women don't like men with money and power. "So be it..." The fact that men like hot women does not excuse objectifying them.