Re:Please Stop Asking Me to Speak About Women in Technology
by scott_s on Thursday June 12, 2014 @09:40AM
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I am responding solely to the commenter, not the points of the submission. I feel that you are responding to notions that you imagine I hold, but I have never stated.
I will, however, point out that the author of the submission does advocate for people to talk about women in technology. She just doesn't feel qualified, nor is she interested, in doing it herself.
Plus, having more awesome women speakers talking about technology rather than their vaginas would help set a precedent that women are just as capable of talking about technology, and the fact that precedent needs to be set still is a big part of that problem too.
It's the fact that she keeps being asked to speak about owning a vagina in technology, rather than being a technologist who incidentally owns a vagina, that upsets her, and that's part of the problem, not part of the solution.