How to Get More Women in Tech: Lessons from a Hackathon in Gaza

Post by exstudent2 » Fri, Dec 23, 2016, 12:52 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #9

exstudent2 wrote: post #4

I don't understand how they can say "Ultimately, our goal is egalitarianism" and yet point #1 is "Make Women a Priority". Targets, arbitrary quotas, not holding events if 50% of the participants aren't female... does not sound like egalitarianism to me.

Oh no. Not again. This generic objection is automatically off-topic on HN [1]. We've all heard it a zillion times, and we all know everything that comes next. What about nurses! What about coal miners! Why aren't there diversity efforts for preschool teachers! Well, there are! Well fuck you! You're a sexist, no you're the sexist. Yawn, yawn, snooze. Those of you who actually want to replay this discussion, please fin…

Post by exstudent2 » Fri, Dec 23, 2016, 1:00 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #12

exstudent2 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I did support the moratorium on political posts but it got reversed and here we are again. As long as posts like this hit the front page you should expect people to point out inconsistencies in message.

This has nothing to do with the experiment we tried on political posts. It has to do with the outright ban on pointless repetition. People come here to have their intellectual curiosity satisfied, and there stopped being anything new in any of this a long time ago. The way I see it, the options are: (1) would we like to be both bored and blared at? or (2) neither. On behalf of the community, I choose "neither".

Post by dianacbiggs » Fri, Dec 23, 2016, 2:22 PM UTC

exstudent2 wrote: post #4

I don't understand how they can say "Ultimately, our goal is egalitarianism" and yet point #1 is "Make Women a Priority". Targets, arbitrary quotas, not holding events if 50% of the participants aren't female... does not sound like egalitarianism to me.