Re:An 80s Girl Talks About Computers: A Reminiscence
by jlarocco on Thursday August 17, 2017 @04:05PM
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That's so blatant that I have a hard time believing it.
If that's really true, it's a jackpot discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen, and I hope it happens sooner rather than later. Completely unacceptable.
Re:An 80s Girl Talks About Computers: A Reminiscence
by no897nhtoeui on Thursday August 17, 2017 @07:32PM
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> That's so blatant that I have a hard time believing it.
That's what I thought about those videos of guys following a woman around as she walked down the streets of New York City minding her own business.[0] I had never witnessed that sort of thing and thought, "There's no way this goes on that often or I'd see it." And yet, dozens of female friends confirmed that it happens all the time. I was like, "Why have you never mentioned this?" They just said it happens too often and there's not a lot you can do about it, plus half the time other people don't believe you.
Re:An 80s Girl Talks About Computers: A Reminiscence
by msla on Thursday August 17, 2017 @04:19PM
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Tenure is a powerful force. It makes professors band together, because they know if the concept is weakened for political reasons, any one of them could be next, especially in this era of universities looking to replace tenured faculty with non-tenured grad students.
Re:An 80s Girl Talks About Computers: A Reminiscence
by CobrastanJorji on Thursday August 17, 2017 @03:33PM
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Within the last decade, in the United States? And they straight up said they'd fail any woman in the class? That's awful. That's so much worse than I thought things were these days.
I'm sure the laser focused fury of social media makes universities more wary of having people like this on staff, but still most people don't want to get caught up in that sort of fight. They were quite old though, so there's hope for the future.