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> "increases in masculine wording were sufficient to decrease women's job appeal ratings and their anticipated belongingness in specific occupations" > People
by trhtrsh 14y ago
> "increases in masculine wording were sufficient to decrease women's job appeal ratings and their anticipated belongingness in specific occupations"
> People in Silicon Valley are dicks
> Hire those bothered by suck
> [random butt statue]
- holman 14y agoGood point. This talk got restructured at least twice this week before I gave it, but I should have reworded those phrases, too.
- yxhuvud 14y agoOn the other hand, I felt "Hire those bothered by suck" was the one sentence that resonated the most with me.
- neilk 14y agoI liked that opener, myself, but you're probably right. Maybe we should look on this as an opportunity to alter our vocabulary. I bet most of the people on this board are like me -- when they were twelve, they had a vocabulary like a college graduate. But somehow as adults we decided it was cool to talk like twelve-year-olds.
- pnathan 14y agoFor some of us, somewhere between twelve and adult we realized that to communicate with most other people we had to talk like twelve year olds. After all, using big words & words others don't know confuses and angers people. (IME at least)
- sp332 14y ago> [random butt statue] The story is a few thousand years old http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Callipyge#Interpretations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Callipyge#Interpretations The "objectification" might be considered sexist now, but I doubt the original story meant to belittle the women in any way.
- shortsleeves 14y agoIf anything, that just goes to show how difficult it is to convey the right tone. Even when you're fully conscious of it, you may still fall for certain biases.