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> A charitable interpretation of what jwomers meant is that overall, when looked at in the aggregate of our society, men face less harmful discrimination agains
by serf 7y ago
> A charitable interpretation of what jwomers meant is that overall, when looked at in the aggregate of our society, men face less harmful discrimination against their gender than women do.
What I don't understand is how adding more discriminatory rules/events/companies/club reduces overall discrimination.
>The reason a community like WomenMake is valid and important while something like MenMake is not, is because women have and still do face systemic discrimination in society, and in the workplace (and especially tech workplace
The defense is always "Women are treated terribly, so what of it if men receive some abuse.", I don't agree with the logic. Creating animosity, which things like this generally do (just given the comments..), doesn't seem ultimately useful for ending sexism; it just reinforces it the other way.
I don't want to think of what the swing-back will be like, and that's what it seems we're setting ourselves up for as a society.
- akiselev 7y agoHow does a community support organization/forum meant to help an underrepresented group of people participate in an industry increasing the discrimination of that industry? They're not stopping you from applying for the same jobs or committing to the same open source projects. Might as well bark up the AARP tree for discriminating against people under 55.
- celticmusic 7y agoit's like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound, it does nothing to fix the underlying problem. Why do we need a society of black engineers when we already have a society of engineers? Willingly Segregating yourself off from the rest of the engineering community does nothing to help the general engineering community to accept black engineers. That was the other posters point. You may not agree with it, but don't act as if there's no validity to it.
- scott_s 7y agoCreating a new community with the purpose of helping a set of people who experience harm in the wider community is not abusing people of the wider community.