tiredofcareer

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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
Searching for a Geek Feminism Wiki term to apply to my argument, so you can minimize it and mock it once it's categorized in its little box? Your comment reminds me of those people -- and I've seen this in person -- that hit Wikipedia's "li
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
Actually, I have, but not rooted in fear of sexual assault. Of the six bullet points listed, I've considered all of them for varying reasons. Five of them at once on more than one occasion. You bet your ass I have. I think, even as much as
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
I guess I see "you're a man, and therefore likely to discriminate against and marginalize me and therefore I cannot have you on my mailing list" as pretty much the same thing as "you're a woman, and I can pay you less". The magnitude of the
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I'm intrigued that you'd give a different answer for each scenario.
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Because you snub them. (Full circle!)
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What would your family say if you rang them up and said you'd joined the neo-Nazis? (Assuming you qualify to join for the purposes of the hypothetical.)
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I don't, again, and since you lead me down this path I was hoping you did. I meant we snub the KKK and neo-Nazis. For what it's worth, I spent four months around neo-Nazis when I went to prison. Not what I expected, but that's irrelevant to
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
You rephrased my comment's discussion of privilege and wrote it back to me. The parenthetical is what I'm asking about.
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I don't. That's sort of my point; we snub groups on the other side of this coin.
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The portions of my comment where I discuss privilege are the clues that I already knew that; that doesn't really answer my question. Your linked comment sort of does, but not exactly. I still don't see it. This sentence is going to sound li
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Name a community where that's a barrier to entry.
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
Not trolling, I'm genuinely asking: Would you consider it sexist if someone started a developer list only for people that identify as male? Would you consider it racist if white people started a conference where only white people could atte
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
> Surely you're not leaving your career because last week somebody indirectly caused some poor schmuck to get fired for being a goober at a conference you didn't even attend. I mean, if I were considering it with 30 units of determinati
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
He didn't get a choice on the color. That's Hacker News punishing him with gray for being so poorly downvoted. (I might have missed a joke. If so, I'm sorry.)
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> You should read her blog, then. So should you, since she made it fairly clear that she spoke to someone behind her and to her far left, and then the person next to him began the comments that set off this entire fiasco. I remembered
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
Jesse Noller tweeted that he was receiving anonymous threats and e-mails regarding the PyCon drama. Regardless of which way you lean on the matter, this might be a good cause to remind him that people do appreciate his work, no matter how b
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Jesse Noller's Gittip account is now the #2 receiving account(gittip.com)
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Well, in preference being the key phrase there, which is why I left out the part about capability or qualification. I suppose my original point was missing an implied "due to race". You are correct, though. Regardless of the white person
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
This is, without a doubt, the worst thing I have ever read on Hacker News. And I've read a lot. You should be ashamed of yourself for writing something so hopelessly intolerant. Until now, I felt somewhat removed from this sexism-in-tech de
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
I think it does, but that's not necessarily the reason why you don't work with diverse races. If I hire five white people, that doesn't mean I'm racist. If I hire five white people in preference to five black people, that means I'm racist.
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Indoors? Okay, yeah, that's stupid. I rescind some of my amusement.
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I'm not sure how you got from the quoted portion to your conclusion. I don't need to make dick jokes to write code. I'm not lamenting the loss of base humor. I'm lamenting the guerrilla campaign against it, such as considering it okay to ta
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
I think all of us would agree that technology has a sexism problem. However , the environment in 2013 and the way, as a whole, it seems that we have gone about countering it is roughly equivalent to napalming six city blocks to get rid of