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.

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[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

schooling a couple of my well meaning male friends as to why something like that might be appealing to women, as opposed to being arrant elitist sexist meaniehood.

Yeah, I hate that sort of shit. Also see:
"But, but it would be sexist to hire a woman on the basis of gender!" (when talking about affirmative action.)
Gee, do I hear you complaining about how male programmers have been getting hired on the basis of gender for about 50 years?

[ivy]

I think they got the point when I pointed out that we would have to have good security for the event, because our field is full of people who like breaking rules, and we're saying "no you can not has". And every one of them was clearly thinking about how *they* could get in, and me just baldly pointing it out brought them up short. So, hooray for education?

I'll post about it on my own journal sometime when I'm going to be online enough to manage the inevitable arguing. But I'm headed down to Portland for RainSec, so that's not today.

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

Ah, Portland! I was going to say "oh hai let's get coffee", but it looks like your schedule is quite full. Have fun!

[ivy]

We're here through tomorrow, if you're free for lunch/early afternoon coffee.

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

I have class from 12-1:20pm, but could do lunch after that. Have you been to Food for Thought (student-run vegetarian cafe in the basement of Smith on the PSU campus)? I suggest that or the carts near 4th and Hall, out of self-interest :-) Let me know... you have my number.