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I was at a tech meetup a couple of weeks back and I walked in to see a lot of women. It was really refreshing. Fast-forward a little bit and you can hear guys
by cheez 15y ago
I was at a tech meetup a couple of weeks back and I walked in to see a lot of women. It was really refreshing.
Fast-forward a little bit and you can hear guys snickering when the women went up.
I don't understand it but I fucking hate it. My sister is great at her job (IT project management) and my daughter loves programming. I can't wait for her to show some guy how to do the job.
Some of the women made the best presentations, maybe because they're women but probably because they're just smart.
I wish I could punch all of those insecure, sexist guys in the mouth.
- almightygod 15y agoViolence will most certainly not solve the issue and seems ironically to be a typical male response. Where these men were truly snickering at the fact women were speaking? Correlation does not always mean causation. I don't know what would be snicker-worthy of women speaking. I can think of several reasons why attendees might snicker at a speaker regardless of their sex.
- cheez 15y agoI distinctly heard "snicker snicker woman snicker snicker". I wouldn't have remembered otherwise.
- almightygod 15y agomaybe it was "haha, that was a great joke...oh look a woman speaker, awesome...dude i have a similar joke for you"