Re:Jessamyn Smith: Fighting sexist jokes with a Python bot
by hythloday on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @03:31PM
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What's your source for the first claim? I've never heard it before - Wikipedia cites[0] a 2006 investigation that found 2,205 allegations, 262 of which were substantiated. The FBI collected[1] 92,455 allegations of forcible rape - i.e. excluding other kinds of rape - in the same year - even if just 1% of those were proved, that's still nearly an order of magnitude disparity.
(Please don't take my comment as dismissing your other points - sexism hurts men and women. I'm just curious about that specific claim.)
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_rape_in_the_United_States
[1] http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/offenses/violent_crime/forcible_rape.html
I could go on and on, but you're so brainwashed by a movement that has overall very good intentions (empower women in a society that disempowers them) that you have internalized it and don't even see the blatant sexism on the other side of the coin. Even this piece contains so many generalizations about men, geeks, tech workplaces that are blatantly unfair.
It's so ironic that so many feminists/liberals are so guilty of what they accuse others of - being unaware of their own prejudices.