'Sexual favours were the norm in music industry'

Post by mensetmanusman » Sat, Feb 20, 2021, 2:30 PM UTC

baby wrote: post #640

mensetmanusman wrote: post #633

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Recall that the U.S. is 4% of the world population: 1. China 1,394,015,977 2. India 1,325,349,639 3. US 329,484,123 4. Indonesia 272,856,400 5. Pakistan 233,431,156 6. Nigeria 213,986,428 7. Brazil 212,041,332 8. Bangladesh 162,532,538 9. Russia 142,588,206 10. Mexico 128,840,997

Many of these countries' social medias are heavily controlled by their government + they are developing countries and/or lagging behind in terms of social norm. I'm pretty sure things are changing quite fast for them though!

Post by throwawayyy1986 » Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 12:07 AM UTC

foldr wrote: post #584

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Because everyone else at Tumblr more or less young, male, single, caucasian, straight, European ancestry. The Office manager was female, one of the HR reps was African American, head of security had kids, PHP developers were always blowing through so occasionally someone diverse would slip in there, but in large LGBTQ was the only category where there was diversity and they hired a lot from that category. If you were…

I wasn't always a software engineer, and in my previous career (academic linguist) there were lots of gay men. This wasn't because linguistics departments were making a concerted effort to hire gay men. Nor are linguistics departments in the USA particularly diverse in other respects (e.g. race). In general, it's a mistake to conclude that any 'diverse' people you see around must have been hired according to some spe…