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Re:Ambient Un-Belonging: Women and Tech Startups by anthonyb on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @11:28PM (#1670921)
> Implicitly treating "women are underrepresented in IT" as synonymous with "women are oppressed" begs the question...

Right - so you haven't read the article then? It presents a lot of arguments, not-very-implicitly-at-all. Maybe that's the first place to start.

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Re:Ambient Un-Belonging: Women and Tech Startups by philwelch on Wednesday September 08, 2010 @12:29AM (#1671029)
I posted my thoughts on the article after I read it yesterday. Here's a link for you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1668031
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Re:Ambient Un-Belonging: Women and Tech Startups by anthonyb on Wednesday September 08, 2010 @05:08AM (#1671398)
Yeah I saw that, and thought it was particularly crass and insensitive. Set up both a strawman and a cliche so that you can mock a minority as a character in a Monty Python sketch.

Bravo.

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