I am tech – Real stories from women in technology
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#2One thing I have learned from my wonderful partner is stories like this can be incredibly alienating to women who don't fit into them.
For example, the "all women get catcalled" - my partner notes that since she never gets catcalled, she must be too ugly.
So what about the women who have an entirely different kind of experience? This article is a classic: https://medium.com/@maradydd/okay-feminism-its-time-we-had-a...
Re: I am tech – Real stories from women in technology
#3One thing I have learned from my wonderful partner is stories like this can be incredibly alienating to women who don't fit into them. For example, the "all women get catcalled" - my partner notes that since she never gets catcalled, she must be too ugly. So what about the women who have an entirely different kind of experience? This article is a classic: https://medium.com/@maradydd/okay-feminism-its-time-we-had-a..…
Is the implication here that we shouldn't let women tell any stories unless their experience is an utterly universal one experienced by every woman?
Just seems like a way to derail a worthwhile project like this. It is clearly collecting a wide variety of stories, and IMO that's worthwhile. After all, minorities - by definition - don't have universal experiences, but surely they're still worth telling?
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#4One thing I have learned from my wonderful partner is stories like this can be incredibly alienating to women who don't fit into them. For example, the "all women get catcalled" - my partner notes that since she never gets catcalled, she must be too ugly. So what about the women who have an entirely different kind of experience? This article is a classic: https://medium.com/@maradydd/okay-feminism-its-time-we-had-a..…
That's why there are multiple stories. So someone reading can see the whole range of women's experience in technology. I'm sure there will be some good, some bad.
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#5Why should I care about more social justice demagoguery?
I couldn't care less if you have a penis, testicles, breasts, vagina, uterus, or whatever combinations of said organs this unique little butterfly has.
"What have you done, and what are you working on?" are important to me. And auxiliary to that would be "What life happenings lead you to addressing those questions?". I'm also curious how they learned the skills they used to succeed in their projects.
Edit: Unsurprising. SJW downvotes. Explain to me why I should put an emphasis on someone's gender? Doing that is sexist.
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#6The page won't render properly because Ghostery blocks some Adobe feature as a tracker.
Re: I am tech – Real stories from women in technology
#7One thing I have learned from my wonderful partner is stories like this can be incredibly alienating to women who don't fit into them. For example, the "all women get catcalled" - my partner notes that since she never gets catcalled, she must be too ugly. So what about the women who have an entirely different kind of experience? This article is a classic: https://medium.com/@maradydd/okay-feminism-its-time-we-had-a..…
You're correct. Something else that's noticable here is that they're all white women.
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#9Hm, company behind such project could be a bit more diverse.
Here is picture of their team: https://mixpanel.com/jobs/
Re: I am tech – Real stories from women in technology
#10Hm, company behind such project could be a bit more diverse. Here is picture of their team: https://mixpanel.com/jobs/
Great idea... So they should start hiring women who don't have the skills over others (who happen to be male) that do. Wonderful suggestion. But I'm sure they can fake-make a few Social Media fluff positions for women to fill. It's what GitHub did.