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by juridatenshi 14y ago
Their argument was that there were only white guys available from the list of popular ruby presenters. I'm saying they may not have tried very hard to reach out if they didn't even ask a closeby popular presenter (yet they asked a ton of wh
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by juridatenshi 14y ago
I'm kind of skeptical that they even tried to reach out to diverse people. For example, Keavy McMinn indicated on twitter they never asked her. She's a very well known and liked speaker in the Ruby community and lives relatively close by. I
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by juridatenshi 14y ago
Someone clearly let the straw feminists out of the closet again. HSSSSS! http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=341
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by juridatenshi 14y ago
Yeaaaaah. MRAs aren't exactly known for their even-handed and rational evaluation of anything involving women or women's issues.
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by juridatenshi 14y ago
I want to create physical copies of Derailing for Dummies just so I can throw them at most of the commenters in here. You are hitting so many of the points. :( http://derailingfordummies.com/complete.html
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by juridatenshi 14y ago
http://derailingfordummies.com/complete.html
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by juridatenshi 14y ago
There are definitely studies that show this is why some women leave the field, even after overcoming the hurdles to get into it in the first place. http://www.lpfi.org/sites/default/files/tilted_playing_field...
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by juridatenshi 14y ago
Some certainly are. It's important for us to have diversity in a variety of areas (and intersections of areas), not just women. That being said, this specific article is focused on a woman's experience, so it makes sense that it would focus
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by juridatenshi 14y ago
Diversity is generally good for the industry. There have been many studies showing that diversity improves teams on a variety of different dimensions. Increasing interest from underrepresented groups can help increase the number of availabl
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by juridatenshi 14y ago
That's not been my experience. One of the local papers recently changed their site to have FB comments. I can't believe the bigoted garbage and trolling I've seen people post on there with their name and picture attached to it.
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Etsy Sponsoring Hacker Grants for Fall(etsy.com)
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by juridatenshi 14y ago
It doesn't sound like the commenter is offended. I think they're asking for clarification. If the OP means gender, then they would hopefully be welcoming of trans women. If they mean sex, they may only be looking for cis-women.
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by juridatenshi 14y ago
This project sounds like an awesome idea if executed properly. The fact that you're already taking constructive feedback into account in a positive way makes that proper execution sound pretty likely. :) On the note of constructive feedback
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by juridatenshi 14y ago
As the blog post author I'd like to add some clarification here. By "seeing" I meant see them speak at the conference, not necessarily that the things they share in common are things you can see. Commonalities can cover a very wide range o
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Steel City Ruby Conf tickets on sale now(showclix.com)
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