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> Conference and panel organizers who “can’t find” diverse panel members should be fired. Point blank. > We talk to each other. We warn each other. If there aren’t any women pitchi…

> I think that this verb is particularly meaningful in that a member of our community killed himself not that long ago and those of us that were close to him would rather not be re…

Unsubstantive pot-stirring, followed by a Patreon link.

The implication is that diversity of experience/background/culture leads to diversity of thought and diversity of ideas. That's fairly logical and noble goal, but it ignores the id…

Giving someone an opportunity based on a protected class, which denies that same opportunity to someone else of that protected class, is discrimination. It is treating someone nega…

And what if said young software engineering student reads Bryana's blog post and realizes that Bryana may only have been chosen to speak because she is a woman? What sort of inspir…

It means your hypothetical substitution situation is no different from mine, I just happen to have picked a substitution based on an existing situation that meets the criteria you …

We've built our straw effigies from the same bale, mine just happens to burn more cleanly.

Nobody is questioning her ability or qualifications, only your decision to offer her opportunities and incentives based on her gender which her post implies were not also available…

Let's make it more fair: instead of men and women changing jobs, ostensibly causing a great deal of chaos, let's go with a parallel universe where your conditions are already in pl…

I disagree. Discrimination, both sexism and racism, is any negative treatment towards someone based on protected status, regardless of who is "in power". The critical race theory d…

All capable employees should be encouraged and incentivized equally, or based on their competence. Incentive based on protected status is discrimination.

Helping people overcome whatever unique problems they face in order to reach their full potential is expected and encouraged. Offering them opportunities solely based on a protecte…

She says she was encouraged to apply and speak at conferences, and that management would campaign for the whole team to attend any conferences where she is accepted to speak. > Thi…

The Contributor Covenant is a simple document that explicitly tells people not to do the things they already know not to do. The Open Code of Conduct is a design-by-committee list …

My example is not contrived at all, and equally relevant. You can take any feminist argument and search/replace "men" with "black people" and the underlying hate speech becomes rea…

> This may be a kind of blunt observation, but perhaps you see what you're looking for? Saying I'm looking for an excuse to get offended in a conversation about feminism is a level…

You don't get that it's offensive to men to say "teach men not to rape"? What about "teach black people not to murder"? Does that not sound incredibly racist to you? If it does, an…

The differences between First World and Third World opportunities are stark, unfortunate, and inarguably unfair. The differences between First World Male and First World Female opp…

There is a very strong disparity between feminism's words and actions. They call for equality, but in reality use it as a sword to strike at men. http://reason.com/archives/2015/07…

> Physical attraction alone does not disregard a person's humanity or personal agency. Your argument is perfectly reasonable, it would be nice if other feminists understood the dif…

> "Teach men not to rape." That is word-for-word the way I hear it phrased, and no context can make it right. It implies that men are rapists who don't know any better, and need ed…

> Framing masculinity as a negative is anti-male. "Patriarchy" as a concept, regarding men as responsible for all the ills of the world, is also anti-male. I agree that there are c…

> You've basically repeated what I said, except you seem to think sexism a good thing as long as it targets someone you perceive as "advantaged". First World Male Privilege | First…

>> Men are rapists and sexual offenders by default. > Nope, the argument is that there is a societal pattern that devalues the severity of rape through humour and other cultural tr…