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No, the problem is that instead of addressing the actual issues at hand you deflect by taking issue with how a a single member of a minority group attempted to
by parfe 14y ago
No, the problem is that instead of addressing the actual issues at hand you deflect by taking issue with how a a single member of a minority group attempted to address the issue.
You are trying to make the issue about you. How a member of your majority and in power group was wronged by a member of the minority.
To be clear: You are trying to change the debate from "How do we solve gender issues in our community?" to "I don't like how someone tried to solve an issue one time. BLAH BLAH BLAH the larger picture BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH"
- AndrewDucker 14y agoThis isn't a debate about how we solve the issue in our community. It's a debate about this particular event. And that's what I'm contributing to.
- Ilmesnkie_Jones 14y agoThe article was trying to place the whole affair within a larger context. It wasn't trying to pick apart Richard's behavior but reflect how the reaction to her behavior is based on ingrained norms within the community and society at large. You don't have to agree with what Richard's did to have that discussion.
- AndrewDucker 14y agoExcept it didn't place the _whole_ affair within a larger context. It places a one-sided version of it within a larger context. I think the larger context is important (and the way that Adriana was attacked was vile). But that does not make her original behaviour ok.
- lovehashbrowns 14y agoNobody tried to change the debate from "How do we solve gender issues in our community?" to "I don't like how someone tried to solve an issue one time." We cannot do both? We cannot discuss gender inequalities in tech AND say that the way Adria Richards handled the situation was not correct? And you're basically saying that we can't criticize a woman's behavior without taking attention away from the sexism debate.