I Almost Left Tech Today

Re:I Almost Left Tech Today by tbrownaw on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:41PM (#14869256)

Things that probably express similar sentiment, but with different language:

  * "Not my circus, not my monkeys."
  * "How do things in those other places concern *us*?"
  * "People suck, news at 11."
  * "You think we haven't been hearing this every day already?"
  * "Thanks, but we already have more than enough things to be outraged about."
  * "That doesn't look actionable."
  * "We're here to do work, not to agitate for social change."

Does phrasing it in any of those ways still look "sexist by any possible interpretation I can think of"?

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Re:I Almost Left Tech Today by calibration263 on Thursday July 27, 2017 @07:21PM (#14870628)

A lot of these I don't think are different phrasings, they're different in meaning as well.

A closer rephrasing with similar sentiment is: "No one cares"

All the phrasing you provided are combinations of: 1) not applicable to me/us 2) we can't do anything about it

For anyone struggling with empathy, imagine you're feeling frustrated with something, you share with your coworkers, one replies publicly "no one cares" and everyone else laughs. Then the next day the thing that was frustrating you happens a number of times and you can't say anything because it's clear that everyone doesn't care.

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Re:I Almost Left Tech Today by sokoloff on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:48PM (#14869340)

No. Some of those are borderline supportive (#3, #4). The others are at least slanted towards "[maybe] it's a problem, but not one that we're going to fix".

They all convey much more "we heard what you said" than "We don't give a fuck" does. Just MHO.

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