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You're misunderstanding me if you think I'm asking women to play nice.

• Frondo 11y ago
  See, what it sounds like is, you're calling it a narrative when, for women in tech, it's reality. Narratives can, of course, be changed pretty easily--"let's tell a new story"--while reality is a great deal more resistant. Conflating the two does a disservice to the people for whom it's reality, by suggesting that all they need to do is tell a new story.
  • rabbyte 11y ago
    Just because it's a narrative doesn't mean it's not also a reality. Story telling is how we make sense of collective societal changes. The presence of a narrative simply means society is trying to work out the problem. Conflating reality and narratives would be to believe that men and women are actually fighting when the reality is there are more than two genders with allies on all sides.