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I like the idea - its a local theatre with an interesting program relevant to current hot topics in the industry, why not show your city from your best side?
If you don't want to go, whats the point of being angry about it? Why waste breath on something optional?
Just more proof that feminism has infected the tech community as well. What a joke.
This doesn't seem to be about feminism specifically (although your classification of an equality movement as an infection would certainly demand extraordinary evidence). It seems to be more about gender, and gender roles. There's a really big question here that I find interesting as a hacker: how much of what we call gender is biologically constructed, and how much is socially constructed? Obviously, say, having a pe…
Really. I'm not even talking about the self-labeled "radfems"—the ones who say that no heterosexual sex is truly consensual. Though those monsters clearly exist, too.
Hackers don't know foolish it is to give in to third-wave-feminist bullying. They have no idea what they're getting themselves into.
My remarks aren't commentary on this particular contemporary dance; I'm simply responding to the labeling of feminism an equality movement.
There's no substantive discussion of women in tech there, just "here's a contemporary dance about a subject".
So what? There's literally nothing in there I'm interested in, and I've wasted time looking at it trying to figure out why I should be.
Beyond that, I find the idea of enticing geeks to gawp at physically fit women gyrating to the subject of gender differences in tech more than a little ironic. Unless their purpose is to exploit the stereotype. In which case, get off HN!
Thanks for encouraging the arts, Ela :)