I think I just sprained something from rolling my eyes so hard

[tim]

Why I want to set the entire open-source community on fire sometimes: the comments on this post and this post. (The latter of which is from one of my ex-bosses although I ran into it randomly, w00.)

Apparently, if you suggest that using a picture of a woman's bare ass on the title slide of a technical talk might not be the best idea if you want to make women feel welcome in CS, that is ~censorship~. I also can't decide whether it's those comments are the most special, or the ones asking whether also including pictures of naked men in the slides would have made it OK. Also see: examples of more or less every tactic mentioned in the link to "Derailing for Dummies" I posted before this.

I guess it's another entry for the Male Programmer Privilege Checklist. Also, I feel like I need to burn some more reddit karma, brb.

Comments

[ssaiscps.livejournal.com]

Oh man. What is wrong with some people?

Also, shouldn't the privilege list include things that are not blatantly awful? This is like one of the example at a sexual harassment training workshop that seems too outrageous to actually happen nowadays. (I'm sure my thinking this kind of thing is quite rare is some kind of male privilege...)

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

I welcome any suggestions, and most if not all of the things on the list are things that really happen (which is why I was trying to attach blog links to some of the more recent ones). Maybe half the things on the list are things that happened to me when I was presenting as female. The women who contributed the other items came up with them for a reason.

[ssaiscps.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm just wondering about what the precise definition of "privilege" is. I guess the criterion I suggested above doesn't really have anything to do with it.