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What? No. Treating women as sexual objects rather than sexual actors ("men do the fing, women are fed") is a large attitude problem in tech and many places. Thi
by rmc 14y ago
What? No. Treating women as sexual objects rather than sexual actors ("men do the fing, women are fed") is a large attitude problem in tech and many places. This is the attitude that harms women who want to get into tech (or other fields).
Quite often this "women as sexual objects" attitude is actually quite homophobic. It equates men who are fed as women or "not real men". (a la "you're only gay if you take it"). "Men must be the one fing, if you're the one being fed, then you're not a man". Stopping that sort of attitude is actually good* for LGB people in the workplace.
Sorry for the crude language, but I can't think of a good verb that has an active and passive form like that
- claudius 14y agoSo by talking about ‘big dongles’ you treat women as sexual objects? Could you elaborate slightly on that?
- StavrosK 14y agoIf anything, aren't you treating men as sexual objects?
- jack-r-abbit 14y agoActually... isn't it the dongle that is being treated as a sexual object? Dongle manufacturers should be deeply offended
- claudius 14y agoOr you’re treating men as technical hardware cheaply manufactured in China.