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What if you're a straight lady dev looking for a job? Are you suggesting that women don't like with other women? Most tech shops have much less men then women
by VMG 13y ago
What if you're a straight lady dev looking for a job?
Are you suggesting that women don't like with other women?
Most tech shops have much less men then women, which is boring. This ad wanted to highlight that this place has more diversity.
As with all language, the wording is a little ambiguous. The article (and many commenters) choose to interpret the line in the worst possible way and think the company is a misogynist hellhole and probably think that the four women working there are kept on leashes.
- PebblesRox 13y agoI doubt that Richard Green had any malicious intentions in his comments; it was probably an innocent mistake. If you look at the literal meaning of what he wrote, you can see that he probably wanted to highlight the diversity. But I don't think you can deny that the wording he chose has unfortunate connotations and I think it's worth pointing that out because those connotations, while subtle and subjective, are real and they can be harmful. I think at the very least we can agree that they have harmed the image of evvnt, which is the opposite of what he intended. No one is suggesting that women don't like to work together. It's that we don't want to work in a place where the men subconsciously think of us as a temptation, a reward, a decoration, or a commodity. That's the impression that Green's post gives, even though I'm sure that's not what he intended. Does that make sense? I can try to explain better if you have questions.