3 ms·
A Practical Way to Fight Sexism in Tech Today (Literally, Today)
- mwetzler 14y agoThank you! Another way to contribute: tweet #notbuyingit at sexist companies advertising during the Super Bowl. http://www.missrepresentation.org/media/nbi/notbuyingit-list-of-super-bowl-advertisers-twitter-handles/#handles http://www.missrepresentation.org/media/nbi/notbuyingit-list...
- meric 14y ago"...attracting people who aren’t white males (which I am)." which I am not. Stops reading. I guess I'm just not the intended audience...
- cliffseal 14y agoThat's a shame, because I address that idea in, literally, the next line.
- meric 14y agoActually, no it doesn't. There are plenty of non-white people in the tech industry and your article makes it sound otherwise.
- cliffseal 14y agoI had no intention of inferring that, as I often make that point myself. The sentence you first referred to stated: "But, all that aside, we’re still in the middle of a long, long discussion in our industry about attracting people who aren’t white males (which I am)." ...which is an observation of a discussion, not a statement about demographics, and that discussion is happening whether it's actually relevant or not.
- meric 14y agoI don't see any discussion about attracting people who aren't white people when > 50% of people in my office aren't white. Citation would be good.
- cliffseal 14y agoWe're devolving here. Note that my post was specifically regarding GoDaddy fostering sexism (intentionally or not), but that many of the discussions _also_ involve being diverse in other areas. For instance, the very first link in my article is to one called "The Problem with a Slate of White, Male Speakers". So, please, find that discussion elsewhere as it's happening—but, I had nothing to say on ethnicity other than pointing out my own for clarity's sake and stating that it shouldn't matter.
- uvTwitch 14y agoWeren't us tech-savvies already supposed to be boycotting godaddy because of their support for SOPA?
- cliffseal 14y agoPerhaps, but the point here was to encourage us to discuss things with the non-'tech-savvies'.
- a_bonobo 14y agoIs Bob Parsons (the elephant hunting guy) still CEO of GoDaddy, like OP's link suggests? The guy's homepage says he's "only" executive chairman ([1]) but Wikipedia says he stepped down as CEO in 2011, citing this interview [2]. [1] http://www.bobparsons.me/index.php http://www.bobparsons.me/index.php [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/bob-parsons.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/bob-parsons.html...
- cliffseal 14y agoI believe it occurred while he was CEO, but I'm happy to update that language to be more correct. I don't want that to be any sort of focus of this writing.