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by mwetzler 14y ago
As far as I can tell, HyperMac's customer base is people who own macs. Miss Rep is a bay area non-profit so I'm sure they have a very large base here. And a lot of macs. Not to mention all the techies, not at all affiliated with Miss Rep, w
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by mwetzler 14y ago
Thanks for asking. This is a huge topic of research for decades. Here are a few starting points. http://www.netmagazine.com/features/primer-sexism-tech-indus... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_objectification
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by mwetzler 14y ago
Many readers of HN are in startups whose small teams have to deal with all aspects of running a tech company, from engineering to handling customer complaints like this. On the Keen IO blog we write about all aspects of starting a tech comp
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by mwetzler 14y ago
The reason I titled this Sexism in Tech was because the story was about tech companies dealing with sexism. I was trying to offer advice to companies who may encounter this int he future. It's not because I think all tech companies are sexi
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by mwetzler 14y ago
I can explain a bit. The reason that it annoys me that a tech company did this is that I'm attuned to the struggles faced by women in tech. Two things make this industry different from other industries. 1) The ratio of males to females is w
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by mwetzler 14y ago
I know what you mean, but the problem is not straight white males, it's everyone. I find MYSELF being sexist at times (and then I catch myself and feel terrible). Seems there's a feminist backlash that has been deeply ingrained into most of
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by mwetzler 14y ago
Thank you.
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by mwetzler 14y ago
Agreed with you that not all stories need be shared. However, this one made it to the front page because it generated a lot of conversation. In fact, people cared so much that it set off the flame detector and it sank the post. That's sad,
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by mwetzler 14y ago
Thank you! The first version of the post DID have the explanation. But it ended up being multiple paragraphs and distracting from the point. It is hard to explain without a lot of historical context. It may become a separate post, though I'
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by mwetzler 14y ago
thank you for sharing this!
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by mwetzler 14y ago
The Miss Representation documentary is REALLY GOOD. If you have a mother, sister, daughter, or girlfriend I'd highly recommend watching it.
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by mwetzler 14y ago
Reddit is definitely worse. But any HN discussion on gender will leave you feeling a bit depressed.
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haha. I know it seems absurd to say that women are not a hive mind, but I don't know how else to react when someone says something like "if you want people to think x about women, stop women from doing y". As if I wield some kind of influen
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by mwetzler 14y ago
Good to know, thanks for responding. I fear that Hacker News flaggers are now over-generalizing "complaining about sexism" and lumping anything near that into the category of "nothing left to say". My post was about what companies can do wh
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by mwetzler 14y ago
Thank you. I am shocked by the comments and finding it hard not to take it personally. But I know you are right.
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by mwetzler 14y ago
I don't understand. I took the time to write this post because it's something that is important to me as a person in the tech community. It's obviously something that impacts many people in this line of work, otherwise this community would
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by mwetzler 14y ago
Hacker News just did a great job showing me that I'm not welcome in this community.
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by mwetzler 14y ago
I'm comfortable with nakedness and sexiness. I doubt the booth would have hit my radar at all if they'd included male models too. Honestly, this wouldn't be a blog post if the CEO had responded in a thoughtful way. It's his response that is
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by mwetzler 14y ago
I'm working very hard to be a strong woman in tech and support other women in tech. I don't understand why I shouldn't be taken seriously. I don't understand why you think that because some women are sexist, I can't talk about it. This post
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by mwetzler 14y ago
Anybody know why this post instantly dropped from page 1 to page 4? Is it a bot or does someone really not want this conversation on the front page?
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by mwetzler 14y ago
Hi there. I wrote the post and just wanted to let you and the models know that I fully support them and their right to do whatever kind of work they want to do. I don't see them as victims and I didn't write the article to be a voice for th
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by mwetzler 14y ago
Are you saying I shouldn't write this post because some women work in fashion? Honestly, I don't understand.
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by mwetzler 14y ago
I've never been called a "rogue woman" before. That's awesome. It's funny how women having an opinion is so offensive to some people.
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Sexism in Tech: A Good Apology is Better than No Mistakes(keen.io)
72 points by mwetzler 14y ago|170 comments
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by mwetzler 14y ago
Your use of "the really hard problems" is revealing. Those of us who went to engineering school know exactly what you mean by that, because it's the way we describe the most challenging exam questions, projects, or open questions in the fie
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by mwetzler 14y ago
I've experienced that flip. It's scary. I should have never rejected the stalker. I've been told, and believe, that the only course of action for the stalked is to COMPLETELY IGNORE the stalker, until something threatening and legally actio
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by mwetzler 14y ago
It's worse because it's another form of attention, which riles them up. In my case, once I blocked a stalker on facebook, he started sending stuff to my work email.
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by mwetzler 14y ago
You have to check them periodically to make sure the situation isn't escalating. For example, if they start threatening physical violence against you, you now have something to use to take legal action. And it's good to know if someone is p
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by mwetzler 14y ago
Can anyone explain why Keith leaving the company absolves Square of a potential lawsuit? If the company actually did something illegal, isn't the damage already done and still punishable? Seems there are quite a few missing pieces to this s
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Tech companies, stop hiring women to be the Office Mom(qz.com)
1 points by mwetzler 14y ago|0 comments

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