As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People

Re:As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People by msla on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @06:47PM (#14974467)

As a man, I'd never presume to talk too deeply with a coworker about their personal life.

It's a gross violation of the boundaries in every sense of the term.

Long way of saying I agree with you, I suppose.

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Re:As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People by mcv on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:14AM (#14977888)

In my experience, male co-workers talking about their relationships tend to fall in three categories:

* they talk about how hot women are (which makes me a bit uncomfortable, because I don't talk about women that way),

* they just divorced and talk about how all women are bitches (which makes me even more uncomfortable)

* they talk about their kids (which is often awesome)

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Re:As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People by msla on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:53PM (#14982278)

I'm happy to say I've never experienced the first two.

I've never experienced any of them, but I'm happy about being ignorant of the first two.

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