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>In an already male-biased community the non-inclusivity of demos like these put out a very specific message to women: this is not for you. It's just one demo.
by Grue3 13y ago
>In an already male-biased community the non-inclusivity of demos like these put out a very specific message to women: this is not for you.
It's just one demo. And it's ok for an app to be not for any specific sex, not that there's any reason why women can't play CircleShake. Not every app should be for everyone.
And I agree that TitStare is terrible. I just don't understand why the completely unrelated app is brought up in the article.
- sambeau 13y agoThe problem with CircleShake was not the App itself but the sniggeringly-schoolboy manner in which it was presented. Schoolboy humour is something that boys (and men) do when they get together in all-male environments. It is reasonably harmless in that context. As soon as you engage in this sort of behaviour in a public context like this you give the signal that this is an all-male environment. Hacking is not an all-male environment and it should strive to be inclusive. To do that we need to remove the all-male pack behaviour and to do that we need to start by cleaning up our public spaces — conferences, keynotes, demos etc.