Re:My positive experience as a woman in tech
by douche on Friday December 18, 2015 @10:57AM
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Women really, really, don't want to be treated the way men treat each other when they get together without external sources of censure. Trust me on that.
Re:My positive experience as a woman in tech
by DanBC on Friday December 18, 2015 @11:05AM
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A lot of men really really don't want to be treated like that either.
Re:My positive experience as a woman in tech
by Joeboy on Friday December 18, 2015 @11:38AM
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also lots of women seem pretty comfortable in blokeish social settings.
Re:My positive experience as a woman in tech
by pdex on Saturday December 19, 2015 @01:14PM
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There's lot of women who are more comfortable socializing with men and have hobbies or think about topics that might have once been considered "tom-boyish" that aren't considered so now (thankfully) and they can find a lot of common ground to converse with men.
Re:My positive experience as a woman in tech
by jakobegger on Friday December 18, 2015 @11:09AM
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I'm not totally sure what you are talking about, but I don't think I want to be treated like that either. (I'm male)
Re:My positive experience as a woman in tech
by gone35 on Friday December 18, 2015 @03:57PM
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Trust me on that.
Nah, you need much better evidence than that --esp. for such a sweeping claim.
Re:My positive experience as a woman in tech
by CaptSpify on Friday December 18, 2015 @11:13AM
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> Keep in mind that the situation she recalls, the one with the guy that apologizes to her for cussing, is perhaps not the sort of sexism you would want to try and get rid of.
IME, I would respectfully disagree. I'm not a woman, and I'm sure you can find some for which this is true and some for which it is untrue, but....
My perception is that women want to be "one of the guys" just as much as guys do. If you want to censor yourself around "polite company", by all means, I think there's nothing wrong with that. But if you want to censor yourself because there's a woman around, that's still sexism, although a more polite, accepted form of sexism.
The way I see it, this coming from a early 20s male (read, shall we say, constantly aware of the opposing sex), is that that attempt to be polite to a woman has nothing to do with her being a woman in tech, but simply being a woman in a social situation.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's pretty normal for a guy/girl to alter his/her behaviour when in a social situation with a member of sex he/she's interested in. Eveb uf the situation in question is supposed to be 100% platonic and/or work related. There is a limit, of course, to how far we can/should excuse this behaviour in people. But I don't think it's fair to stomp on people when they behave different within limits.
Because you _are_ a woman, and it _does_ make a difference, but obviously not in the sense that you'd be any more/less competent because of your gender.