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Apparently one director had groped so many women that his suite was known as the "Cosby Suite". As spoken by one of the victims [0]. [0]https://twitter.com/skr

Apparently one director had groped so many women that his suite was known as the "Cosby Suite". As spoken by one of the victims [0]. [0]https://twitter.com/skrutsick/status/1418006293495762944?s=20 https://twitter.com/skrutsick/status/1418006293495762944?s=2...

tclancy 5y ago
It's amazing to me things like this are getting downvoted. Can't imagine why women feel their voices aren't heard when some people will mass downvote any comment in a thread that disagrees with their preconceived notions of how the world is. "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression"
- arkitaip 5y ago
  HN has always been sexist and generally bigoted towards minorities. Not much has changed in the years since it was founded.
  - disgruntledphd2 5y ago
    That may be true, bit we're talking about women, who are emphatically not a minority :)
    - munk-a 5y ago
      That is technically true overall, but when it comes to software development and especially gaming they are very much in the minority. So much so that at most gaming companies of 50-100 folks you can count the women working there (outside of the art department) on one hand.
      - raxxorrax 5y ago
        Absence of one gender in a certain industry is not sufficient evidence for discrimination.
      - disgruntledphd2 5y ago
        Agreed, though publishing arms tend to reverse that as they are mainly (historically at least) marketing focused, which means more women. Nonetheless, women have historically been a majority of humans.
        tclancy 5y ago
        You get that isn’t what the word means in this context, right? It’s about power, not numbers.
        disgruntledphd2 5y ago
        I don't disagree that women are treated badly in a lot of situations, but unless we want to define away the word majority like we did literally, then women are not a minority.
  - raxxorrax 5y ago
    Prejudice is at the core of being bigoted and you are not making a great case. Instead, you judge on objections. I don't think this to be true and think accusation of sexism/racism in tech are extremely disproportional.

tclancy 5y ago

It's amazing to me things like this are getting downvoted. Can't imagine why women feel their voices aren't heard when some people will mass downvote any comment in a thread that disagrees with their preconceived notions of how the world is. "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression"

arkitaip 5y ago
HN has always been sexist and generally bigoted towards minorities. Not much has changed in the years since it was founded.
- disgruntledphd2 5y ago
  That may be true, bit we're talking about women, who are emphatically not a minority :)
  - munk-a 5y ago
    That is technically true overall, but when it comes to software development and especially gaming they are very much in the minority. So much so that at most gaming companies of 50-100 folks you can count the women working there (outside of the art department) on one hand.
    - raxxorrax 5y ago
      Absence of one gender in a certain industry is not sufficient evidence for discrimination.
    - disgruntledphd2 5y ago
      Agreed, though publishing arms tend to reverse that as they are mainly (historically at least) marketing focused, which means more women. Nonetheless, women have historically been a majority of humans.
      - tclancy 5y ago
        You get that isn’t what the word means in this context, right? It’s about power, not numbers.
        disgruntledphd2 5y ago
        I don't disagree that women are treated badly in a lot of situations, but unless we want to define away the word majority like we did literally, then women are not a minority.
- raxxorrax 5y ago
  Prejudice is at the core of being bigoted and you are not making a great case. Instead, you judge on objections. I don't think this to be true and think accusation of sexism/racism in tech are extremely disproportional.