'Too hot to be an engineer' – women mark Ada Lovelace Day

Re:'Too hot to be an engineer' – women mark Ada Lovelace Day by tsotha on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @03:15AM (#10378972)

>It really isn't that hard to avoid saying offensive and distasteful things to women (or anyone else, actually).

No, actually, for some guys it is hard. If it's not hard for you, well, that's great. But the world is full of clumsy men.

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Re:'Too hot to be an engineer' – women mark Ada Lovelace Day by pswilson14 on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @03:24AM (#10378996)

Part of professional life is understanding how to communicate with others and how to know before you say something how it will be taken. Some people aren't good at this, and those people should work on it until they get better at it. I wouldn't blame anyone who makes an honest effort. But many more people in my experience simply aren't interested in learning how to communicate with people that are different from them. In these cases, this mentality of blaming "PC culture" is just allowing people to remain lazy and ignorant.

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Re:'Too hot to be an engineer' – women mark Ada Lovelace Day by MelissaJawa on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @02:36AM (#10424007)

Thank you. Blaming "PC Culture" is people being on the ignorant defensive.

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Re:'Too hot to be an engineer' – women mark Ada Lovelace Day by yitchelle on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @04:00AM (#10379081)

> But the world is full of clumsy men.

But that doesn't excuse them from making offensive statements.

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Re:'Too hot to be an engineer' – women mark Ada Lovelace Day by craigvn on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @06:11AM (#10379422)

Seriously, if it is hard for some men I pity their total social incompetence and life of drooling over animated women in games.

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