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by crux_ 16y ago
> I know plenty of women that look at porn, one female friend continually makes jokes about raping me, and if you don't think that women talk about men when they're not around... Note: I'm talking about in professional settings. p.s.: w
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by crux_ 16y ago
If I were in the fashion world and felt that was an issue, why not? I'm not a fucking wallflower.
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by crux_ 16y ago
> It's hard wiring. Women = nurturing, communication. Men = hunt, build. Let's ignore all the mountains of evidence to the contrary and say that, on average, you are absolutely correct. Have you read Harrison Bergeron? Go on, it's easy
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by crux_ 16y ago
Let's take category (b). If a joke is truly inappropriate, is it really being a wet blanket to speak up about it?
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by crux_ 16y ago
Statistics and studies will tell you information about the source of a gender gap . However, things like: * porn passed around chatrooms * rape jokes around the water cooler * comments on women's attractiveness every time one leaves the ro
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by crux_ 16y ago
Our work, or our culture? I'm going to say it's the latter, given that these aspects of it aren't appealing to me either.
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by crux_ 16y ago
> # Tell jokes that would make sailors blush Not specific gender bias, but we can both agree it's likely. > For example, I can say "fuck political correctness" Sure you can, just like every other startup/developer type has said ten
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by crux_ 16y ago
They chose the headline; I did not -- and it seems pretty clear from more than just the headline that the AdGrok folks value anti-PC posturing quite highly. If it were me choosing the headline, and I had a desire to reference Shackleton's j
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by crux_ 16y ago
It's not so much "offended" as the fact that I do not like what developer culture has become. Speaking up about it seems to be a small way to create some change in that culture. If I keep quiet, then the hive-minded sausage-fest will march
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by crux_ 16y ago
Do you really think the developer world, particularly within startups, doesn't have a serious problem with sexism?
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by crux_ 16y ago
> Nothing about the current state of tech was implied I'll make your implication for you, then: The current state of tech is just as sexist and imbalanced as the world of exploration was in 1914. > Obviously we welcome one and all.
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by crux_ 16y ago
Well, call me too sensitive then: it is sexist. If they need to explicitly mention that "women are welcome" in a footnote, that pretty much confirms that their choice of headline is saying that women are somewhat less than welcome. I don't
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by crux_ 16y ago
Okay, as I'm a bit grouchy, I will bite. Here are some of the changes I see: There's a generation rising up that largely sees privacy as disposable rather than precious. Groups of what I'd call the wilfully ignorant -- hate groups, cults --
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by crux_ 16y ago
The internet is turning out to be more like TV and less like books/newspapers on that front. Signed, Someone who used to be an idealist about that.
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by crux_ 16y ago
In retrospect, my college GPA of 3.1415 doesn't seem so smart. =) (Note: I didn't hit it exactly; it was a while ago but I think I recall I ended up at 3.139.)
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by crux_ 16y ago
Since the author wasn't interested in trying to fit into canon, that doesn't seem to be a fair basis for dismissing his/her writing. However, there are plenty of others (standard IMO disclaimer applies). ;) (As a very quick & somewhat q
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by crux_ 16y ago
Yes: I set it aside very early on. I'm quite certain the story will change & evolve. However, I'm rather sceptical that the writing quality will. Part of why I gave it up so early is purely on me: I am a sucker for a page-turner -- once
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by crux_ 16y ago
I'll be honest: I read a lot of fiction too. And this is awful . (Note: giving it up at chapter 3.) Everything so far has followed this pattern: * 1) Set-up. * 2) Harry demonstrates his special, unique smarts. Of course, step two is the fa
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by crux_ 16y ago
You think the "laws" of attraction are somehow writ in stone, unchanging, dictated by biology only and unrelated to culture? Here's a quick counterexample of the western standard of skinny=attractive: http://www.news24.com/World/News/Cow-s
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by crux_ 16y ago
Projecting my own biases onto google: Maybe it's just because Instagram is the very definition of all sizzle, no steak? It is innovative in the "gee nice idea" sense but it not at all innovative in the sense that our collective knowledge or
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by crux_ 16y ago
Perhaps I misinterpreted your earlier comment? I was responding to the idea that the stuff you see on Cosmo/society-at-large is just natural expressions of hard-wired biology -- what I see as a classic sexist cop-out.
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by crux_ 16y ago
Or, you know, since one way of defining "humanity" is by our ability to transcend the merely animal, change . (Edit to add: by answering that way I'm absolutely not agreeing that "sexism is natural" -- just that even if it were, it would
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by crux_ 16y ago
I'm not a woman; hell, I'm a geek myself. But reading that little whine just made me respect "geeks" that much less.
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by crux_ 16y ago
How about: Because they are male focused magazines. Sure, it is women buying them at the checkout -- but only to better live up to what men are demanding from them. (This answer is slightly more radical than I am.... but that doesn't necess
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by crux_ 16y ago
If the picture of a body and not a person, "sexbot" seems an appropriate term. Perhaps the distinction is too subtle for you?
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by crux_ 16y ago
Answer: It's just as (more?) often people in gender/women's studies making technology the focus of their work. That's the case here. And the reason for that is blindingly obvious: The tech field not only has a gigantic gender disparity, but
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by crux_ 16y ago
To restate your first sentence: The author of the article (angry woman!) earned your dismissal of any points it had to make? golf clap
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by crux_ 16y ago
> Most geeks love women! Yet so few respect them.
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by crux_ 16y ago
Probably because if they do, they'll be accused of being unable to code.
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by crux_ 16y ago
> I've never understood how it's possible to be offended on someone else's behalf, particularly on a perpetual basis, as your tone leads me to believe you must be. I'm not the person you are replying to, so this is from me: It doesn't t

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