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by lizzard 13y ago
I am looking at it, admiring it, and I'd do the same in a heartbeat.
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by lizzard 13y ago
I already donate, but I feel suddenly like donating more...
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by lizzard 13y ago
This reminds me of Excite@Home buying Blue Mountain Arts and Webshots because they got a lot of hits. How incredibly not useful!
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by lizzard 13y ago
I would love to sit down with the group of women who wrote this and get to know them. While I disagree with them that having a code of conduct is "helpless", and on many other points they make, there are plenty of ideas we share as well. I
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by lizzard 13y ago
This sounds great! I hope you can make it happen, and do stuff like go together to hackerspaces and interesting talks! Good luck.
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by lizzard 13y ago
That's great, and maybe you have student groups too that will be supportive and in which you will develop a useful network of peers and mentors!
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by lizzard 13y ago
We do, and I think the right & ability to work under pseudonymity is very important. But at some point having a career means that people want to hook their identities together. A bunch of the CS students coming into this only have an
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by lizzard 13y ago
I've been answering emails along with other Ada Initiative folks all afternoon!! A lot of women all over the world are very happy and excited to get to try things out on github. The Systers list was so helpful in distributing the link to
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by lizzard 13y ago
This is fantastic. It's easy to set up and use. I can share folders without having to rearrange anything. I love that you don't have to make an account. Awesome for privacy!!
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by lizzard 13y ago
I'd like to add that someone with servants doesn't speak for my feminism, or most women.
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by lizzard 13y ago
She seems not to notice that "good enough" means your labor is exploited just the same, but with less "safety net".
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by lizzard 14y ago
Thank you!
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by lizzard 14y ago
Thanks for the lesson in how to fix our oppression.
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by lizzard 14y ago
Because people don't respect those requests and just joke more, get hostile, mock us. It is not about personal publicity. The fallout from reporting incidents like this (or documenting them at all in public) is extreme. It isn't good for th
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by lizzard 14y ago
Apparently the con agreed that it was offensive behavior, and so did the employer.
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by lizzard 14y ago
Women in this field keep explaining how this sort of thing harms them. But when we complain we are "no one"!
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by lizzard 14y ago
Exactly. We need to be able to call out bad practices. People deny doing this stuff, they say we should report it, they say we should report it non-anonymously. Sadly every time we do... the same thing happens as a result.
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by lizzard 14y ago
Reporting on something we've directly experienced isn't hearsay and they weren't her co-workers. As women we need to be able to speak in public forums about our experiences without this sort of extreme harassment as the result.
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by lizzard 14y ago
I was under the impression that they were talking with her when they made the jokes. As such it is something that shouldn't be assumed to be okay and in fact is often hostile and exclusionary. The backlash and hatred, death threats and extr
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by lizzard 14y ago
Sure it will bother her some at some point, but be supportive and give her good options, that's the best you can do! Cannot fix society all the way immediately... but you can give her confidence and courage.
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by lizzard 14y ago
What is heartwarming about this other than this person patting themself on the back for being a decent human being? While it's nice when someone is reasonable and polite but it doesn't magically make up for the other 100 people who acted li
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by lizzard 14y ago
Maybe you mean this as a joke, but I am a wheelchair user, and it is often really not fun to push myself through the airport. So.... your joke falls a bit flat.
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by lizzard 14y ago
They do spy on and harass First Nations activists, notoriously.
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by lizzard 14y ago
So many people earnestly want to tell me how if I just drink the right cherry juice, or do acupuncture, I will magically be fixed. It is very annoying. Rather than take someone's anecdotes and try them one after another it seems more sensib
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by lizzard 14y ago
We have some advice on women's tshirts on the geekfeminism wiki - maybe someone will find it useful! http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/T-shirts
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by lizzard 14y ago
American Apparel's sizes for women are truly horrible. Large ones fit an average sized 10 year old.
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by lizzard 14y ago
It's beautiful - it would make a great poster!
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by lizzard 14y ago
Larger projects like GNOME and Mozilla are developing communities of bug triagers to help with exactly this problem! For example: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugmasters https://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_man
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by lizzard 14y ago
This is a good approach! Doing a little work to narrow down the scope of the bug and where it belongs can go a long way towards bringing it to the right developer's attention. It also helps to attach a reduced test case and as much informat
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by lizzard 14y ago
Maybe, but I'm in my 40s and have been reading and arguing about it as well as experiencing it for my whole life.

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