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this is an interesting one. i didn't realize that people voted without seeing the content. i guess they were just voting for topics or titles? > "I voted for i

by diN0bot 18y ago

this is an interesting one. i didn't realize that people voted without seeing the content. i guess they were just voting for topics or titles? > "I voted for it, actually, because CouchDB is one of those things that’s the new hotness and I haven’t had a chance to play with it, and besides, he wouldn’t actually put porn in the slides. Right? […] I’m a minority in this community. I know that, and generally I can ignore it and go along thinking it’s a meritocracy of ideas and code. Then I encounter a woman’s thonged rear on the screen at a conference, 20 feet tall, and I remember, oh yeah, people like me don’t belong here. To most of these men around me, I am, at best, an oddity, and at worst, a sexual target. I feel a little less safe."

Tichy 18y ago
There was no porn in the slides. (Edit: to be more specific, the "thong" picture on the front page was the most explicit one of the slides, and that looks more like an ad out of a women's magazine, maybe for underwear or perfume. Might be a better place to look for roots of sexism.).
- cjbos 18y ago
  I wasn't at the presentation, but it was reported in the original posts that 5 slides were removed from the web version of the slideshow that were more explicit (Although not reported how explicit, nor has this been verified by anyone who attended.)
- Ardit20 18y ago
  maybe for underwear or perfume. Might be a better place to look for roots of sexism How is presenting underwear for women on a woman sexism?
  - Tichy 18y ago
    The offending image of the presentation was a female torso with underwear, that looked like a typical advertisement for underwear. If you say that is sexism, how can you at the same time say the same picture in a women's magazine is not sexism? I just wanted to point out that women consume that kind of images on a daily basis and never seem to freak out about it.
sp332 18y ago
In this community, everyone is an oddity. Get used to it or GTFO.

by diN0bot 18y ago

Tichy 18y ago

There was no porn in the slides. (Edit: to be more specific, the "thong" picture on the front page was the most explicit one of the slides, and that looks more like an ad out of a women's magazine, maybe for underwear or perfume. Might be a better place to look for roots of sexism.).

cjbos 18y ago
I wasn't at the presentation, but it was reported in the original posts that 5 slides were removed from the web version of the slideshow that were more explicit (Although not reported how explicit, nor has this been verified by anyone who attended.)
Ardit20 18y ago
maybe for underwear or perfume. Might be a better place to look for roots of sexism How is presenting underwear for women on a woman sexism?
- Tichy 18y ago
  The offending image of the presentation was a female torso with underwear, that looked like a typical advertisement for underwear. If you say that is sexism, how can you at the same time say the same picture in a women's magazine is not sexism? I just wanted to point out that women consume that kind of images on a daily basis and never seem to freak out about it.

sp332 18y ago

In this community, everyone is an oddity. Get used to it or GTFO.