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Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by GrayTextIsTruth on Monday September 30, 2019 @04:09AM (#21112778)
there are more homeless men than women. So that's like targeting men to give free food and shelter because more men need it, which wouldn't happen.
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Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by ptah on Monday September 30, 2019 @04:34AM (#21112895)
i think you are trying to stretch the metaphor too far
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Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by GrayTextIsTruth on Monday September 30, 2019 @04:38AM (#21112922)
its more accurate. targeting the underrepresented cohort.
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Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by ptah on Monday September 30, 2019 @05:37AM (#21113250)
no, you are applying the thing "metaphorised" inside the metaphor. it is quite wrongheaded tbh
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