Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website

Post by z3t4 » Fri, Feb 16, 2018, 11:28 PM UTC

orthecreedence wrote: post #543

z3t4 wrote: post #260

I think those chat boxes are rude. Here I'm am browsing the web in my underpants and some dude sneaks up on me like "hey, I see you are visiting our site! Wanna chat ?". Instead make it so that the user needs to make active action, eg clicking on a link to start the chat.

Strongly agree. Whenever something annoys me, I find the first person I can who is remotely associated with that thing and hold nothing back as I verbally abuse them and sexually harass them.

Post by urahara » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 12:37 AM UTC

thaumaturgy wrote: post #528

dandare wrote: post #271

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The only thing I disagree with is the assertion that women in tech (STEM?) have somehow different/worse experience than women in general. Or at least I can not imagine why that would be the case - are educated and intelligent men more sexist than the average Joe? I think the main difference is that in tech we are much more open to acknowledge the problem and discuss it.

> The only thing I disagree with is the assertion that women in tech (STEM?) have somehow different/worse experience than women in general. I'm not sure that's a statement I'd make. I don't think I know enough to say that. It's tempting to let myself get nerd-sniped into a longer, less productive discussion comparing different fields and pontificating on different possible causes, but then I'd be making the same mist…

Post by ashelmire » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 1:20 AM UTC

naikrovek wrote: post #571

rectang wrote: post #397

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You can't make that blanket statement. A single punch is battery. A single genital grab is sexual assault. A single demand for quid pro quo sexual favors in exchange for professional rewards is sexual harassment. A single message asserting that an individual is not right for their job because of their gender creates a hostile work environment, and that's also sexual harassment. Just because there can be cases where a…

A single event can be illegal, immoral, wrong, or any one of a bunch of other words, and a single event is never harassment because harassment requires multiple events. A single demand for quid pro quo sexual favors in exchange for professional rewards is a sexual offence, a bad one, and alone it is not harassment. IANAL, though the dictionary definition sticks with me, especially the key words: "multiple", "unwanted…

Post by mirimir » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 2:35 AM UTC

bloak wrote: post #171

b6 wrote: post #136

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I'm not talking about what women want, I'm saying that I know firsthand that many men I know love the women in their lives very much, much more than life itself. That's all. There certainly are men out there who hate women, but it doesn't seem to me to be very many. Try it, enumerate the men you know and ask yourself, or even ask them directly, if they love the women in their lives. What fraction of women haters do y…

Your last paragraph is totally correct, in my opinion. (It is probably also true that many people who use "racist" insults are not really being "racist"; they are just insulting in an effective, target-specific way. If they couldn't come up with a racist insult, but the target has glasses, they'd probably resort to "four-eyes". I'm talking about the UK here, by the way.)

Post by rdl » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 4:36 AM UTC