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Google Conducted Hollywood 'Interventions' To Change Look of Computer Scientists (usatoday.com)
theodp writes: Most TV computer scientists are still white men," USA Today reports. "Google wants to change that. Google is calling on Hollywood to give equal screen time to women and minorities after a new study the internet giant funded found that most computer scientists on television shows and in the movies are played by white men. The problem with the hackneyed stereotype of the socially inept, hoodie-clad white male coder? It does not inspire underrepresented groups to pursue careers in computer science, says Daraiha Greene, Google CS in Media program manager, multicultural strategy." According to a Google-funded study conducted by Prof. Stacy L. Smith and the Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Google's Computer Science in Media team conducted "CS interventions" with "like-minded people" to create "Google influenced storytelling." The executive summary for a USC study entitled Cracking the Code: The Prevalence and Nature of Computer Science Depictions in Media notes that "Google influenced" TV programs include HBO's Silicon Valley and AMC's Halt and Catch Fire. The USC researchers also note that "non-tech focused programs may offer prime opportunities to showcase CS in unique and counter-stereotypical ways. As the Google Team moves forward in its work with series such as Empire, Girl Meets World, Gortimer Gibbons Life on Normal Street, or The Amazing Adventures of Gumball, it appears the Team is seizing these opportunities to integrate CS into storytelling without a primary tech focus." The study adds, "In the case of certain series, we provided on-going advisement. The Fosters, Miles from Tomorrowland, Halt and Catch Fire, Ready, Jet, Go, The Powerpuff Girls and Odd Squad are examples of this. In addition to our continuing interactions, we engaged in extensive PR and marketing support including social media outreach, events and press."
Google's TV interventions have even spilled over into public education -- one of Google-sponsored Code.org's signature Hour of Code tutorials last December was Gumball's Coding Adventure, inspired by the Google-advised Cartoon Network series, The Amazing Adventures of Gumball. "We need more students around the world pursuing an education in CS, particularly girls and minorities, who have historically been underrepresented in the field," explains a Google CS First presentation for educators on the search giant's Hour of Code partnership with Cartoon Network. "Based on our research, one of the reasons girls and underrepresented minorities are not pursuing computer science is because of the negative perception of computer scientists and the relevance of the field beyond coding." According to a 2015 USC report, President Obama was kept abreast of efforts to challenge media's stereotypical portrayals of women; White House Visitor Records show that USC's Smith, the Google-funded study's lead author, and Google CS Education in Media Program Manager Julie Ann Crommett (now at Disney) were among those present when the White House Council on Women and Girls met earlier that year with representatives of the nation's leading toy makers, media giants, retailers, educators, scientists, the U.S. Dept. of Education, and philanthropists.
Google's TV interventions have even spilled over into public education -- one of Google-sponsored Code.org's signature Hour of Code tutorials last December was Gumball's Coding Adventure, inspired by the Google-advised Cartoon Network series, The Amazing Adventures of Gumball. "We need more students around the world pursuing an education in CS, particularly girls and minorities, who have historically been underrepresented in the field," explains a Google CS First presentation for educators on the search giant's Hour of Code partnership with Cartoon Network. "Based on our research, one of the reasons girls and underrepresented minorities are not pursuing computer science is because of the negative perception of computer scientists and the relevance of the field beyond coding." According to a 2015 USC report, President Obama was kept abreast of efforts to challenge media's stereotypical portrayals of women; White House Visitor Records show that USC's Smith, the Google-funded study's lead author, and Google CS Education in Media Program Manager Julie Ann Crommett (now at Disney) were among those present when the White House Council on Women and Girls met earlier that year with representatives of the nation's leading toy makers, media giants, retailers, educators, scientists, the U.S. Dept. of Education, and philanthropists.
" The problem with the hackneyed stereotype of the socially inept, hoodie-clad white male coder? It does not inspire underrepresented groups to pursue careers in computer science.."
So it's not INACCURATE, just uninspiring.
Because *everything* needs to be about achieving purported social justice agendas?
-Styopa
At least make it consistent with reality and either put in a Chinese undergrad or underpaid Indian dude.
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i dont see many white males represented in rap videos. i guess that is the reason that there is a under representation of white males in rap. we should start a change.org petition demanding that white males be equally represented in rap videos in order to grow the number of white males in rap
So, Google is bigoted against white men. Nice. Spare me your feminine feefees that say everything should be "fair". It's bullshit. Look, when ratings plummet and you don't know why, go suck a big back of dicks.
Make the world look like you want it to look, not how it actually looks!
See: Before Barbie's Brainy Makeover, Mattel Execs Met With White House, Google
i dont see many white males represented in the nfl. i guess that is the reason that there is a under representation of white males in the nfl. we should start a change.org petition demanding that white males be equally represented in the nfl in order to grow the number of white males in the nfl
According to a 2015 USC report, President Obama was kept abreast of efforts to challenge media's stereotypical portrayals of women...
This news piece talks of the absence of male teachers.
I'd like to have an effort targeted to this imbalance too. Google, anyone?
i dont see many black males represented in the nhl. i guess that is the reason that there is a under representation of black males in the nhl. we should start a change.org petition demanding that black males be equally represented in the nhl in order to grow the number of black males in the nhl
The male hackers/techs are few and far between nowadays... Now that I think of it, so are male heroes. At least in big money productions.
An experiment has been conducted many times where they throw a load of female toys (typically dolls) and male toys (typically trucks) around a monkey enclosure. Every time it is conducted, the female monkeys play with the dolls and the male monkey's play with the trucks. Here's a video of the experiment being carried out on BBC's Horizon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm9xXyw2f7g
The simple fact is, men and women are different and therefore have different interests. The reason women are under-represented in computer science is because most women aren't interested in the subject. It's the same reason men are under-represented in child care - most men have no interest in looking after young children.
What Google are doing is fascist style propaganda that ignores the truth and pushes the party narrative. They then severely punish anyone who questions the narrative.
Google is true evil.
i dont see many heterosexual males represented in apple propaganda. i guess that is the reason that there is a under representation of heterosexual males in apple propaganda. we should start a change.org petition demanding that heterosexual males be equally represented in apple propaganda in order to grow the number of heterosexual males in apple propaganda
yah, it's not really just about "white" discrimination
It does not inspire underrepresented groups to pursue careers in computer science,
Is there a rule that says a person will only be "inspired" by someone who is the same gender that they are and / or has the same colour skin? And if so, why not require them to be the same height, or eye-colour, too.
I find it difficult to accept that women only study physics because they have been "inspired" by a female physicist, or that men would need to have a shining example of a male nurse to "inspire" them into the profession.
And if it is that way, where does that leave all the major religions and their almost all male icons? Should women be almost all atheists if that idea was true.
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
We were asked to draw a scientist, and the vast majority of the class drew men on lab coats, I would say copies of Professor Utonium, but maybe a decade before Power Puff Girls.
A few drew women, also in lab coats, one person drew a sailor with a beard, and I drew a space alien.
Really makes you think.
What minorities are you talking about? Indians and other Asians?
Google is a big corporation. It makes a lot of money and has a practical monopoly on search. Its name is synonymous with searching the internet.
Is all this BS just an effort to pander to the anti corporate left and to pretend they are the good guys.
The problem here is that the SJW is never happy and cannot be appeased. They are yet to work this out it seems.
The problem is once a girl becomes a teenager and knows she doesn't have to work as hard as her brother to get the same things that is when education falls apart. If you know younger girls they are fascinated by the world around them but only a handful will bring that into their adult lives. Its the honest truth. If not much is required then not much will be had... its not the brother's fault.. its the parent's fault for teaching their daughters that being this way is acceptable.. and its society's fault for setting equality at the level of a pair of Louis Vutton shoes and a Short Skirt.. to a guy that works day and night building an empire... this is what I suggest.. take your girlfriend on a 2 week camping trip. deliberately unload her makeup from the vehicle before you leave.. see how it works by the end of the trip..... and if you're not willing to subject your relationship to that.. watch a few episodes of Naked And Affraid.. you will soon find out what is true or not when 2 people have to live together for 21 days naked in the jungle .. a good 20% of the women will really step up.. the rest will fail.. because they have been taught that failing is ok .. as long as you have a pretty pair of shoes to get a man to do whatever you want .. you're going to be fine.
*Is not disappointed*
When can I get that ticket to Mars?
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Orwell explained what the Deep State does when FACTS prove to be 'inconvenient'. The Deep State takes control of all aspects of 'history' and simply rewrites 'history' to suit their agendas.
The second computer revolution brought perfect DEMOCRACY to the field. The microprocessor and software tools meant that anyone anywhere could participate equally- all they had to do was care, and dedicate time and effort to the cause. And as a result we discovered the types of people who were well matched to the need. Google- the R+D arm of the NSA- now declares the ***truth*** to be 'wrong'. Yet most 'white' male nerds who still do all the heavy lifting in this field are anything but kings of society. They are already pissed on by common society- trained to hate the discipline that makes real engineers. And now they are about to be demonised - because their very physical form is "evil" in the eyes of Google's SJW mobs.
I've witnessed how timid and down-trodden engineers tend to be. In most companies they are the lowest of the low- not because of what they do (which is so very essential), but because of their psychology- their personalities. Want to now how bad this can be? Well here's a true story...
In the UK several decades ago the goverment wage fairness body declared secretaries and engineers in Britain's car building companies should be paid the same cos they both went to college. I kid you not. This is what the logic of the SJW movement means. Kill the intellectual heart of your nation to allow perfect outsourcing.
Undervalued engineers, seeing themselves eliminated from popular culture in their homelands, will finally get the message- that they should "eat shit and die". The Deep State will instead craft a perfect layer of clowns and jesters to tell the sheeple how to think, while the Deep State outsources essential BRAIN-POWER activity to lands where thinking and intellectual effort is still respected. Meanwhile you slashdot loving Clinton voting dribblers fail to ask 'why?'. "what is their end game".
well here's a clue. America has just ended the Vienna Convention (the rules of diplomacy) by raiding the diplomatic properties of Russia in America. The mainstream media conveniently fails to report this. And slashdot- so keen to push anti-Russia propaganda under any excuse- will be another outlet with convenient blindness. The game is one of societal manipulation to a degree beyond anything ever seen in previous Human History. And the game relies on the current passiveness of 'white' males in the West.
Most people believe in climate change. Are they going to give equal representation to those who do not?
Yes, let's just keep telling kids that they should only do the things that people that look like them do. If you use stereotypes to try to change stereotypes, just what do you think you end up with?
Ok, let's pretend that Hollywood goes ahead and starts sprinkling minorities into the casts of technology company movies/shows.
What will happen when the angry and vengeful yet brilliant villain happens to be a member of some minority group? An African, Mexican, Asian, Indian, Pacific Islander, South American, American Indian, or Middle Eastern cast in that part will immediately draw protests and demands for people to lose their jobs because the movie/show is insinuating that ALL members of that minority behave like that.
The part of Khan in "Star Trek: Into Darkness" was purposely white-washed by the producers for exactly that reason. They were afraid casting an Indian as the bad guy would insult all Indians and draw protest.
Is Google trying to integrate the NBA basketball into storytelling to depict white guys? Seems reasonable according to their logic.
When will they start showing pedophiles in good light? You know, not all pedophiles rape and murder kids. In fact, they rarely do.
won't waste their lives watching moronic shows like these.
Why not you?
"The problem with the hackneyed stereotype of the socially inept, hoodie-clad white male coder? It does not inspire underrepresented groups to pursue careers in computer science..."
Yeah, because Aristotle, Euclid, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Bacon, Newton, Leibniz, and all the groundbreaking mathematicians, scientists and technologists up through Einstein, Turing, Feynman and Berners-Lee took up science and technology because they were inspired by someone they saw on TV.
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
"Calling on" Hollywood to tweak the outrageous lies and misrepresentations it churns out may not be as important as it sounds. Garbage is garbage, no matter what colour you paint it.
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
The part of Khan in "Star Trek: Into Darkness" was purposely white-washed by the producers for exactly that reason. They were afraid casting an Indian as the bad guy would insult all Indians and draw protest.
You mean the role originated by Ricardo Montalban?
Better rethink your example.
Still railing against "the state" when your guy is president?
I thought this was more of the "accent of evil" effect. Both incarnations (inkhanations?) of Khan have a British accent.
They picked a famous actor with a British accent. Most of them are white.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
Tho I suppose with a name like Khan, yeah, the character should not be white.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
Same reason feminists love to talk about how more other women should be coders but don't want to be coders themselves.
See subject & FACT: No, people are NOT equal in abilities or know-how. E.G. - I can't compete effectively vs. Michael Jordan in his area of expertise (basketball).
Best man for the job is what should be the case in ALL areas. Period. Better product results, not worse!
* THIS is WHY you don't see, per my example above, 4' tall midgets in the NBA (or women) - they wouldn't give you the product you want on the whole (only real exception that was exceptional (& there's always outliers) that was 'tiny' was Spud Webb @ 5'4" tall & BEAT Jordan in the slamdunk competition iirc).
QUESTION: Do YOU want a doctor that isn't the best possible you can afford to perform surgery on you, OR do you want an epilectic with a chainsaw to do so instead?
APK
P.S.=> THIS is also WHY people NEED OTHER PEOPLE - everyone you meet KNOWS SOMETHING YOU DON'T or YOU can't do (or rather is willing to do for a wage etc.) OR they have the tools, skills, & knowledge (or time) you DON'T to do a job - trick I suppose, is to FIND YOUR NICHE or place on the ladder to survive (& thus, we help one another this way)... apk
I just went DuckDuckGo
You know who else wasn't inspired by stereotypical white nerds wearing hoodies to go into tech?
Me, a fucking white male. I went into tech because I enjoy it, not because of socially retarded idiots on tv.
This line seems to be taken from a document about the movie Hidden Figures.
That "Made with Code" project seems particularly absurd. They're trying to trick girls into learning how to program by making it about clothes and fashion. Feminism seems more intent on reinforcing stereotypes than those they accuse of misogyny.
Professor Frink: I've re-dorkulated!
I mean how many hot bi-sexual women hackers are there? They seem to be very over represented in Hollywoo.
They don't really want the truth about wage slaves in foreign countries working for a small percentage of what they would receive if they were employees instead of contractors.
Or the greed of the companies the "computer scientists" work for, where people have to make the choice of following their beliefs, or aligning with corporate policies of data mining, information sharing and tracking.
They also don't want to show how tightly integrated information companies and government agencies (in way more than just the US) are, and how they work together to repress, suppress and cause the death or incarceration of individuals just because of their beliefs.
I started coding when I was about 15 years because I was in an IRC channel, and I wanted to "hack it:". I googled "how to become a hacker", and the Eric Steven Raymond's guide came up, so I started learning Unix, and shortly after coding. I liked coding so much that I almost never stopped since them, although I did not end up taking a CS major.
How many of you think that they got interested in coding because of Hollywood (legit question)? Do you think a movie could possibly affect such a decision or induce you into having a new passion, or not have it rather?
You mean the average computer scientist can't walk up to an antiquated computer that they have never seen before and use it to break through the security of a bank, corporation, or prison in 30 seconds flat? I am shocked!
No see, you don't get it. Social Justice Warriors - or those emulating their tactics - simply demand, cry, bemoan, and wail over the inequalities, in an effort to cry-itself-correct. It's up to Someone Else to actually take action. Preferably some faceless bureaucrat in the Federal Government who will insure all inequalities are corrected for us (provided those inequalities only break against the currently selected favored groups, and not those actually underrepresented).
The role of the SJW is to highlight and shine a spotlight on perceived injustices - not actually solve problems. Because that is real work, and if it IS solved - then what do they do?
This is the Hollywood image of coders that I grew up with.
Have gnu, will travel.
Khan Noonien Singh. In the 1960s, it was common to use "swarthy" actors to play Indians or others (witness Yul Brynner playing the King of Siam). But the intended nationality of the character was never in question - Khan was Indian, Brynner was Thai, and that was that. Benedict Cumberbatch as Khan is about as far away racially as you can get - and an interesting twist as well, given he is a lily-white Englishman portraying an evil Indian...
I'm still watching Mr. Robot, despite this stereotype, it's a great show.
If your interest in a field can be diminished by a 'negative perception,' then you aren't really that interested in that field are you?
Don't tell feminists, but white men seem better at getting past the 'negative perception' and pursuing careers in computer science.
Perhaps it's a self-fulfilling prophecy - since feminists constantly tell us that STEM fields are racists/sexist/homophobic/etc., fewer women and POC go into STEM fields -- this shows that STEM fields are racists/sexist/homophobic/etc. -- rinse and repeat.
So, scientists don't need to wear white coats to be identified, nor doctors? Our low attention-span public needs all the subtle clues they can get to follow any narrative longer that five minutes.
I think it is usually one White, one Indian, and a second White who is from Russia or Soviet-occupied something-istan, plus maybe a Venezuelan.
This is an accurate match for Google's internal demographics. GOOG has about a third more women than the average programming shop, and their retention rates for women are better than the rates for men, but that's 18% * 1.33, not quite enough to have one representative in a group of four.
I'm sure Hollywood will prefer eagerly blasting out their propaganda over accuracy. They do it for every other "issue" they can imagine, to the point that people feel so manipulated it's driving yet another round of anti-semitism.
But America is bored and, in this case, the propaganda is aimed at children. What else are they going to do besides watch and subconsciously swallow it whole? start a knitting circle?
Hear, hear. This is pretty much what defines an SJW versus your usual activist or evangelist. The SJW is far more concerned with how OTHER people act than with what they theymselves are doing.
Power corrupts.
Back when Google behaved well - text ads, "do no evil", non-commercial search result ranking - they were new, and essentially powerless.
However, Google acquired considerable power consequent to its abandonment of those good behaviors. Corruption breeds more corruption; corruption also breeds power.
It's no surprise that they have now decided to impose social engineering on the population at large. The only remaining question is if the current trend in their behavior will be impacted by any challengers. Doesn't really look like it.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Ah google,,, The IT arm of the world commie-hippie liberal dictarship
NCIS has prominently featured a female hacker for more than a decade now. A female hacker who possesses all the same superpowers as every male hacker: she can get through any encryption in as much under 44 minutes as is required to advance the plot.
Warehouse 13 prominently featured a female hacker for very nearly the entirety of its 5 year run, beginning 8 years ago. She didn't exhibit her hacking superpowers nearly as frequently as Abby in NCIS, but Allison Scagliotti made up for it by being improbably beautiful.
Leverage prominently featured a black male hacker for the entirety of its 4 year run, beginning 9 years ago. He too had all the requisite hacking superpowers Hollywood insists on depicting.
Hell, we can go all the way back to Hackers, in 1995, to find a very young Angelina Jolie playing yet another improbably beautiful female hacker. We don't know if she had hacking superpowers because real computers didn't actually appear in that movie, but I'm sure if there were any, she would have.
Other examples are plentiful. In short, Hollywood has been injecting minorities and women into a predominantly white male role for more than a generation, predating even the existence of Google. It doesn't matter. In the face of persistent, even pervasive propaganda for an entire generation, the number of women getting CS degrees has gone down, not up. It's almost as if people object to fake role models routinely doing the impossible, especially when they know damn well that the job is simultaneously boring (to their minds) and insanely complicated, and nothing like what's depicted on TV, because guess what, everybody can use a computer, and nearly everybody has, at least a little, so they know the reality is far different.
Bullshit propaganda is bullshit, and also a demonstrated failure. But you just keep on keepin' on, Google. I'm sure it'll start working. Aaaaany minute now...
(Actually, white males should probably be thanking Google for these efforts. After 25 years of anti-correlation, their propaganda seems to have had the affect of reinforcing their dominance of the field. Want a fake hacker? Hire a pretty girl or a black man. Want your computer fixed? Hire a white man.)
You know when I hear people like Paul Joseph Watson and Infowars as a whole rail about cultural Marxism I mostly just chuckle at it for the comedy that it mostly is. But every so often assholes in the tech industry prove the other crazies correct by their very actions. People at Google are so damn obsessed with diversity of skin ton and genital shape that it's starting to ignore the very concept of Google as a money making company in favor of being a vehicle for social change.
Jesus, Google couldn't get the right mix or woman and the 'correct' kind of racial minority in positions of power by hiring them... so they got people in the media to PRETEND that it's that way?? Actually I aint even mad. I'm just flat out amused at how pathetic both Hollywood and Google is in in this. They want to make sure people doing FAKE HACKING and IT work while say shit like 'I'm rerouting through the firewall with encryption!' Oh man, that's just comedy gold.
I actually tried. Apparently I wasn't 'passionate' enough about teaching. The gatekeepers want it to be a vocation rather than just a job.
As to why other guys don't, it's a thankless low paid job and just an accusation of sexual impropriety can run you out of the profession.
The worst that women have to deal with in IT is variable hygiene standards and some non-PC jokes. (Okay, they have to deal with a bunch of other stuff as well, but they aren't IT specific).
The problem I have with this statement is that it seems equivalent to saying that "girls and underrepresented minorities" are somehow more likely to care what other people think about them if they otherwise did try to pursue a field that they believed was interesting, to such a degree that they will not try to pursue such a field in the first place if they feel that they may be negatively perceived because of it. Of course, one may argue that they are more likely to care about it because of all the other discrimination against them, and I do not wish to be dismissive of such unjust discrimination, but in the end, it still amounts to them caring more about what other people think.
Which, to be blunt... and I hate to sound insensitive here, is really their own effing problem. If the only real thing stopping you from pursuing a field, regardless of what it is, is the fear of what other people are going to think of you if you did, then I'm pretty darn sure that you probably wouldn't be a good fit for that field in the first place.
Find something that you love to do enough that it won't matter what other people are going to think, or else you will never be happy. That much is going to be true for both men and women, and people of all races and demographics.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
That's why all the media lies, stories that sound juicy at first and then are revealed to be bullshit later.
I don't know anyone who agrees with the great-grandparent AC. I wouldn't know anyone who agrees with that. Hell, my great-grandfather didn't agree with the AC either, and he was born in 1897. True, he called black people by the usual colloquial name of the age, but he thought them hard workers in the 1910s and 1920s when he had a canal boat full of people working for him in Florida, dredging the east coast canals.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
There are more men than women with autism.
People on the scale will gravitate to jobs that require less social interaction. Coding is one of those jobs.
People with less social interaction will often say and do things that aren't PC because they don't care that much about what other people think and don't keep up with the latest trends in PC terminology.
That said, if they want to get more people into coding, then there's one really easy thing they can do - pay them more and give them better working conditions. If your company has free on-site childcare, you'll have women beating down your door to get in.
When there's a shortage of lawyers, they don't say 'we need better role models', they say 'to get the best we need to pay the best'.
I'm sure that MS and Google would like to adjust supply and demand so that there's more supply to keep wage demands down, but for the rest of us, offer us 10% more than what we're being paid now and we'll jump ship. And with more money being offered, then more people will consider taking it up as a career choice.
Turner classic movies had two sci-fi classics yesterday: 2001 A Space Odyssey, and Westworld (with Yul Brenner). Re-watched both.
Odyssey was 1968 and Kubrick. Westworld was 1973 and Michael Crichton.
It bothers me now, to see that Odyssey had _zero_ diversity. I was critically looking for anyone, even background cast that just walks past the camera, or is in a shot.
Westworld had diversity. Both as scientific types in the underground control center, as well as being visitors to the leisure worlds.
Uh, Linux geek since 1999.
In the 90's and 2000's, there was a formulaic type movie where a white girl would go into the ghetto, get harassed by the blacks, and by the end of the move she humanizes the orangutans.
Instead of it being a rap competition or dance off, 2018 will see it as a computer programming competition.
I wonder if Julia Stiles will be available for a lead role.
Yeah, Ricardo - the guy born and raised in Mexico.
Well, underpaid _H1B_ Indian contract-worker dudes, it seems. They are the majority staff I see in the IT campus, and data centers, of the confidential national medical services company that I have worked at.
Uh, Linux geek since 1999.
Anti-apeist.
"Based on our research, one of the reasons girls and underrepresented minorities are not pursuing computer science is because of the negative perception of computer scientists and the relevance of the field beyond coding."
Funny how no one cared about the stereotypes men would face for being so nerdy/geeky/whatever when computers weren't as profitable or such a big part of society.
I would consider it a major achievement if Hollywood just acknowledged the difference between IT guys, software developers and cyber security specialists. Instead the tube is filled with Felicity Smoaks who alternate among hacking into metropolitan CCTV systems, writing applications to sift and parse through data they've just downloaded from a satellite (that they also hacked into) and re-wiring routers to transmit on a different frequency. These people don't exist in any race or gender in real life.
...people will be like, "Out of nowhere, Google suddenly has financial trouble"
This kind of program is an example of why.
How much money that could have gone to R&D or fiber infrastructure investment has gone into marketing for Google?
I mean, Microsoft is one of the most anti-user companies of all time and they're still around (and actually improving, though they haven't changed their core anti-user villainy). Oracle still gets huge contracts.
But yeah, this is the kind of thing that is a red flag for a company. Rough times ahead.
Thank you Dave Raggett
I dont know man, but tha vast majority of people i see in tech movies or series are Chinese or Hindus look more like an stereotype.
Some people did have a fit about Michael Duncan Clark playing "The Kingpin" in the Daredevil film: part of it was because they changed the race of the character and part of it because "OMG black villain, how racist!"
The irony is that when first envisioned in the comics Kingpin was meant to be black but the editors told the artists to make him white instead because they were afraid of accusations of racism, so in fact Kingpin being black in the film was more true to the original character design.
Also Mr. Clark was one of the few actors big and imposing enough to pull off the part and he did a rather good job with it after all. Aside from skin color he damn well looked exactly like the guy.
Most software engineers ARE white or asian men. Politicising movies to back up one's ideological agenda is just silly. Software engineering is an anti-social occupation that does not offer the kind of social interaction that many females prefer. Look at the personality types that are prevalent for developers. They are particularly rare for females. Whether or not biology or society determines this, I don't know, but it IS reality that people with these traits tend to gravitate towards careers like software engineering, and they do benefit enormously from possessing these traits to be able to succeed in engineering occupations. Google is beginning to become a serious nuisance, with its censorship, pro-religious agenda, and its political meddling. For example, it takes advertising money away from those who criticise religion on youtube. Likewise, it censors any content that doesn't fit with a socially conservative, essentially a fundementalist religious american right wing view of the world. It interferes in our national politics using economic blackmail. It has close links to dubious regimes with a poor record on human rights and democracy, including the United States government. It evades taxation. It is time to look at regulatory remedies, and break google into smaller pieces.
Why not you?
Maybe he doesn't want to set himself up to being suspected of and then eventually being accused of being a pedophile.
In private the majority of folks don't agree with this SJW shit, but in public they continue to say nothing against it for fear of being accused of everything bad.
"His name was James Damore."
You think you're making a clever point.
But the reality is that *everyone * in the teaching profession already deplores the lack of male teachers and looks for ways to redress the balance. Male and female teachers alike know it's good for the kids to have at least some male teachers. They do everything they can short of actually raising salaries.
Source: my experience as a male teacher, and stories from my mother who was a deputy head.
Not surprised this is happening on a country with a culture based on stereotypes.
When your social integration depends on identifying to "which" group you belong to, you should start looking at what causes thoses groups to form in the first place. Education, Money, Sex, Race? Stop making them important and instead let actions and contributions be the rule to measure somebody.
First...that was 50 years ago. Second, there were three female Russian scientists that Heywood Floyd interacted with. I also count two women in with room with during the briefing at Clavius Base.
Nurse too! ^__^
I can see this backfiring due to the law of unintended consequences. Once Hollywood does things their way, MORE males will probably want to enter scientific fields and LESS females will join. How?
Females: Ugh... why would I want to work alongside a bunch of bitches that are gorgeous, dress better than me, can't shut the fuck up and wave their tits around all day? Fuck that!
Males: Whoa! There is a career field with exotic and tall women that dress in skin tight outfits who willingly flash their tits all day? Each of them is bisexual with an even hotter model girlfriend? I'M IN!
*GASP*
According to your research... WOMEN (and minorities) are more influenced by media portrayals of things than white MEN?
You sexist, racist bastards. An army of SJW's should be knocking at your door for this.
Why does it seem like the "news" is dominated by "fake" or "stupid" in various ways? Oh yeah. I seem to have forgotten where the fish started rotting...
The "Don't be evil" fantasy at the google died long ago. I'm pretty sure you just didn't notice until "the last year", and the minor question is "What blinded you?" Maybe your dreams of getting hired by the google died?
The google's primary motto has become "All your attention are belong to us so we can sell more advertising as we [the google] seek perfection defined by infinite profit." This is actually tightly linked to the evolution of the google's mission statement. Turned out that all of the world's information was too overwhelming and the metric of utility was too unclear. They fixed that by focusing on making the advertisers' ads the highest priority information and using profit as the primary metric of utility. Which finally leads us to the religious part of it:
"There is no gawd but profit, and Apple, Gilead, Google, Exxon, and some giant gamblers are profit's prophets."
That's based on Fortune's ranking, and I'm grouping banks, speculators, and money changers as "gamblers". Other sources define "profits" slightly differently and come up with different lists. I just saw one with Exxon higher up and Samsung included. Plus the prophets change over time.
I've come to believe that a problem without a solution is meaningless. Since I can prove that the so-called "problem" of "more profit" has no solution, I reject it. The proof is simple. There are infinite numbers, therefore there is no maximum profit. If you want a more technical proof, you can use any of the infinite set proofs. Personally I like the infinite prime numbers.
I think it would be better if our economic system were organized around two different principles: (1) Increasing freedom, and (2) Improving the use of our limited time. As a result of practicing those principles, I don't have the money to bribe the cheapest politicians to rig the rules of the game in favor of larger profits. In contrast, the google has become a YUGE lobbyist.
You don't want to get me started on fake individuals. Suffice it to say that corporations are NOT human beings.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Actually, it doesn't matter whether or not you believe because Turing defined the concept mathematically. The deeper question is whether you believe human beings are such. I admit that it's a mechanistic perception of human beings, but because I believe we are universal Turing machines, then we are all fundamentally equal in that sense. We can all solve the same problems, though each of us is faster or slower, both in learning how to solve a particular problem and in executing the solution. (Back to ekronomics...)
Kind of a shame that there are no actually funny comments in this active discussion. At least I couldn't find any among the few that had received the mod. Where has all the wit (of Slashdot) gone? Long time passing.
No surprise that the so-called "insightful" comments were so lacking in insight. At this point, there should be some kind of polling mechanism to total up how many of the moderated-as-insightful comments fall into the same old buckets. In this case, the dominant bucket is clearly the bucket of misogynists. In a "nicer" world, I would hope that the biggest bucket would be for hope, as in we should hope to make the world better, which starts by seeing how things can be improved. (As fundamentally EVIL as I think the google has become, at least on this issue they are dreaming (or faking a dream) in a positive direction.) I didn't keep tight score as I reviewed the current crop of so-called "insightful" comments, but I'm pretty sure I noticed a racist bucket, too, with the primary races of concern being negroid and mongoloid...
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Is it mysogynistic to claim women are more risk averse than men?
I guess you can blame sexist testosterone, which peer reviewed studies show tends to increase risk tolerance in males.
I propose that if you think women being women is misogynistic, then you're the misogynist. Women tend to be more risk averse, and that's ok. It's ok for women to not be men. Any attempt to suppress them or change them into something more male is intensely bigoted.
>"We need more students around the world pursuing an education in CS, particularly girls and minorities, who have historically been underrepresented in the field"
Sounds like some programmers just haven't given up on their dream of women coming to them.
Next we'll be taking down statues of hoodie-clad white male coders.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
I think Kubrick made conscious choices about diversity. In Eyes Wide Shut the only "person of color" is the maid of wealthy Manhattanite. The only Asians are crossdressers in make-up, which fits both the tradition of Asian theater, and also Western stereotypes. Kubrick films do lack diversity, but it's an artistic choice, not because he was racist. Eyes Wide Shut is a deep class analysis of bourgeois society, and the fact that there are no people of color is not an accident. When you watch Kubrick films, look at who has books and what kind of book. You'll see the ruling class has massive shelves of anonymous leather bound times of some antiquity, while the working class (which includes professionals such as the doctor in Eyes Wide Shut) have small shelves filled with books with flashy covers aimed at a commercial market. The lowest people (the Russian prostitute for example) have no books at all.
What? You represent the only intrusion of #PresidentTweety into the topic? And only as baggage in your sig? Well, I do agree with your sig for what little that agreement is worth. Perhaps the relevance to this discussion is that the first World CyberWar is over, and America lost. Apparently that proves the superiority of Putin's presumably male Aryan (or Slavic or something?) hackers over America's more diverse hacker community? (Actually, I think Putin had 3 fundamental advantages: (1) Surprise. (2) Broken public education. (3) American TV, especially the Simpsons.)
Funny coincidence is that my wife motivated me to read the transcript of "The Changeling" yesterday. Not her intention, but that's a long and unfunny story, in contrast to the episode... It only takes a few minutes to silently read the 40+ minutes of dialog of that excellent and insightful story of another universal Turing machine run amok.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
I think you should have included more concrete examples of the positive ideology of Gene Roddenberry. "May the Great Bird of the Galaxy bless your planet."
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
President Obama was kept abreast of efforts to challenge media's stereotypical portrayals of women
You can tell the B.S. by what you're not allowed to criticize. Such as the final victim counts of the Holocaust. Like we don't know the Rothschilds are running the whole human exercise in pain.
...and multicultural strategy. Daraiha graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.A. degree in Sociology and a minor in Theatre.
Obviously the best person to motivate young people to choose for a CS curriculum. I bet she can teach them all about the joys of datastructures, algorithms and design patterns. And also tell them why she choose a CS career.
Just because whites have a get-out-of-jail-free card based on skin colour,
Could you explain, why race incarceration gap is a problem, while gender incarceration gap, which is times bigger, is not?
Maria Curie is the only human to ever get 2 Nobel Prices in different sciences, hardly a good example of oppression.
Noether's work was not overlooked, neither was Vera Rubin's.
Hedy Lamarr wasn't even a scientist, yet even she received great support from that weird guy you could see in Movie "Aviator".
Girls do better in math on average, than boys do, but if you only look at top performers (700+ points) boys outnumber girls 2 to 1. Nature plays with male genes more wildly, than with female's, so there are naturally more male idiots, but also more male geniuses, many of them asocial, like this dude:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Since when has it been Hollywood's onus to portray reality? I still find it intriguing that people don't really seem to grasp it. They can have person who can survive a 1000ft fall or bend thr trajectory of a bullet by swinging a gun while firing it. But God forbid they inaccurately portray CS professionals. OH NO!
They portray unrealistic expectations for women/men/whatever. Yeah, because it sells. If it didn't, they wouldn't.
It bothers me now, to see that Odyssey had _zero_ diversity.
Why? Because it was a movie set in the future and you assume an increasing trend toward diversity (from the benefit of hindsight)? The demographics have changed wildly in the 50 years since the film was made—mostly due to changes in immigration patterns. The film was largely made in the UK, because that's where Kubrick worked and lived. In terms of general staffing they'd be drawing on a UK population that was almost entirely white (the UK was still 92% white in the actual year 2001, so we can safely assume it was at least as white in 1967-8 when they made the film). You may protest and note that the film featured many American actors and posit that casting may have been done in the US (at least for non-extras). Well, estimating from the 1970 US census puts the white and black populations at about 88% and 11% respectively. Ignoring the fact that there were few opportunities for blacks in Hollywood then, at best you'd have a roughly 9:1 ratio if the film were representative of the population.
Now if your complaint is about the dearth of women in Odyssey, I suggest you take a good look at the films being made more recently and note how many still have largely male casts and how small the roles still are for women and how often they are just a 1-dimensional love-interest character whose only purpose is to serve as a prize or goal or to hang attractively on a man's arm. Frankly, it feels like finding an oasis in the desert when I watch something like Holofcener's Enough Said and get to see women resembling real, interesting human beings, even in the 2010s.
Sounds like a bunch of excuses. Why do people constantly try to excuse the racist and sexist society we live in? Oh it isn't that people refuse to hire racial and ethnic minorities it is just that they are somehow not as intelligent ad the White man. Oh it isn't that we demean women, it is just that are just too sensitive. This is a bunch of bullshit. Ive seen dumb ass White males in leadership positions they only got because they were White. Ive seen little men get all whiny and throw hissy fits when they couldn't get their way. The only difference between people is that some get special breaks that others don't. Cut with the B's already, the only thing your skin color changes about you is your complexion, get over it. I know some people are afraid of having to compete with others because of their low self-esteem but this is the world you have made. That will change soon as we make the world, one in which cooperation not competition will be the Hallmark of success and we will all see ourselves as the humans we all are, diverse, flawed but beautiful nonetheless. So screw all that White nationalist garbage, there is no White race - we are all humans. Get over it.
Some people did have a fit about Michael Duncan Clark playing "The Kingpin" in the Daredevil film: part of it was because they changed the race of the character and part of it because "OMG black villain, how racist!"
Nope, it was the first. People were aghast that they put a black man in the role. Because how DARE THEY.
Same with Jon Stewart being the Green Lantern in Justice League.
The irony is that when first envisioned in the comics Kingpin was meant to be black but the editors told the artists to make him white instead because they were afraid of accusations of racism, so in fact Kingpin being black in the film was more true to the original character design.
You know, I never heard this story, can find no mention of this story elsewhere, and short of calling Stan Lee to ask him, would like you to authenticate it anywhere.
Also Mr. Clark was one of the few actors big and imposing enough to pull off the part and he did a rather good job with it after all. Aside from skin color he damn well looked exactly like the guy.
He'd have been better off rejecting the role.
I'm not saying it was a career killer, but seriously....
Actually yes, the differences between men and women are a fact, there were peer reviewed publications confirming this, and only PC gestapo is silencing the researchers now and replacing it with the constructivist tosh..
Yeah sista lets all go Emperor Christof of Haiti and show them how to run a country properly. Baron Subotie help us!
Google sure does hate people who look like me.
We're starting at the end and trying to determine causality retroactively here. Women don't get into science, technology, the trades, or business as much as men do. Full stop. That's a fact. Undeniable.
Any explanation that you come up with is going to have to explain the difference. You simply cannot have an explanation that doesn't. Because the data is there. There's no two ways around it.
I guess we can just go full bizzaro-Hitler and claim its because of the inherent moral inferiority of white males, but I feel that's first not constructive, and second totally fucking evil bigotry.
I never passed value judgements on women for the established fact that they are more risk averse than men. Honestly, risk aversion isn't a good thing or a bad thing. It's just a thing. It's why men tend to be rich, but it's also why men tend to be homeless. It's why men tend to dominate the highest paid fields, but it's also why they dominate workplace fatalities. Risk is good and bad.
In seeing if the data actually stacked up with the video I watched, I discovered that female multi-millionaires tend to keep more of their fortunes in low risk vehicles such as bonds. I think that's an apt metaphor: you can never get rich investing in grade a bonds, but you'll never lose your shirt. By contrast, you can get rich investing in stocks, but many stocks are eventually worthless.
The interesting thing about this idea is that it specifically isn't saying women are less capable of being coders, or technologists, or tradespeople, because I don't believe that. Moreover, an ability gap wouldn't explain why more people don't get into a field in the first place -- there are plenty of incompetent men, it doesn't follow that incompetent people would magically choose not to get into these things just because they're women.
And whereas you can explicitly point at socioeconomic factors with respect to race, you can't do the same with gender. A family who has been living with the consequences of slavery for 200 years undeniably has reason to explain why they haven't gotten into this upper middle-class vocation. By contrast, every single human being was born has a 50-50 chance of being a female so they are going to make up all parts of the social strata. You're going to have poor women and rich women.
So that leaves us with a peculiar situation. Is 50% of 50% of the population responsible for somehow massively affecting a full 50% of decision-makers?
According to a 2015 USC report, President Obama was kept abreast of efforts to challenge media's stereotypical portrayals of women...
This news piece talks of the absence of male teachers.
I'd like to have an effort targeted to this imbalance too. Google, anyone?
Why would Google care about that? Google cares about the lack of diversity in its own hiring pipeline because diverse teams are more productive and creative, and it just can't find enough non white/asian males who are top notch software engineers. So, this.
Why would Google care about gender imbalance in a profession that is not part of its business?
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Same reason feminists love to talk about how more other women should be coders but don't want to be coders themselves.
I know lots of feminists who are coders. Most of them are men, though.
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This guy could have been making search engines better (Like having upvote and downvote buttons on results) instead he chose to pick up a femnazi torch and blag about mindless drivel no one cares about... "FICTION MUST EQUAL LIFE".... no mate... fiction is fiction... its not REAL.
Khan Noonien Singh is about as "Indian" as Ricardo Montalban was "Japanese" or Marion Mitchell Morrison was "Mongolian" and the reason for his name was merely an affectation of Gene Roddenberry about some person he knew with a similar name, or so the story goes. In terms of back story and character, what little details were developed, show no connection to any heritage of the Indian subcontinent.
Not that I imagine they mind, he is a deplorable individual.
And the original concept had him as a Nordic individual.
However, more to the point, Ricardo Montalban was known for his outspoken views on casting and ethnicity in Hollywood and acting. He lost some jobs because of it, and cost others work as faux Latinos.
Been coding since early 1980's and I don't even own a hoodie... I've had plenty of friends, including girlfriends... For me coding was a social event, meeting up with friends and creating exciting stuff. Sure there are geeks living in the parents basement, but I doubt computer geeks do this more than other types of geeks. I think it's more or less pure fiction created by Hollywood.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) --
Whoa now, reasonability like this can get you fired! Are you SURE this is the hill you want to die on?
So negative stereotypes fulfilled by white male actors have resulted in disproportionately more white men filling those jobs in real life.
Hmmmmm.....
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
Slashdot needs to add clear trigger warnings to articles so that the broflakes can avoid material that will upset them. Which is pretty much everything. There, saved you a fair few bucks in implementation cost.
sudo ergo sum
The "Do no evil" thing was gone when they bought and broke DejaNews.com. The "Do no evil" is just as valuable as "New and improved" on you washing powder or "Stuff that matters" at /.
For me it was always unrealistic. At some point or another what they consider "Do no evil" will be not in line what I think, no matter how noble they are. And I am just one person.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Out of date, maybe.
But if a computer is used, it is used correctly. Unlike "Scorpion".
That is more important than the skin color of the actor...
you mean like the mad scientist, smart kids are always nerdy (and sporty types are cool), or the way gay people are portraid, etc etc...
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
If this bothers you, I think you might be in search of difficulty in your life.
>80 column hard wrapped e-mail is not a sign of intelligent
>life
'Member when Google was about making your life easier?
'Member when Google was just a really good search engine?
'Member when Google made tools which were cheap and easy to use?
'Member when Google was focused on making their company valuable and vying for our business?
'Member when Google had competition?
'Member when Google wasn't evil?
I 'member...
>80 column hard wrapped e-mail is not a sign of intelligent
>life
The population we're talking about isn't "feminists who are coders" but "feminists who advocate coding but refuse to do it themselves". Those kinds of hypocrites are common.
I point out 'diversity' can make things lesser & produce lesser results not using the BEST PEOPLE for a job @ hand.
(It's just common-sense & easily illustrated with proofs it is as I outlined it - which is also WHY the Marine Corps commandant also will not allow women who cannot stand up to the requirements put upon all other marines (men)).
* People are NOT created "all equal" for all things...
APK
P.S.=> That's a fact & exactly how I outlined it - I suggest you either learn to read properly OR quit trying your bullshit you UNIDENTIFIABLE ANONYMOUS fool... apk
When it won't work by brute force, use even more brute force? Et tu, Bruto?
"Google cares about the lack of diversity in its own hiring pipeline because diverse teams are more productive and creative..."
Do you have any hard data on this claim, or are you just parroting liberal talking points?
weirdo
There was an interesting episode of the Planet Money podcast (I think) about how, before the TRS-80, a lot of women and girls were involved in computers. The TRS-80 came out, and its ad campaign was exclusively aimed at boys. As a result, parents bought it for their sons, not their daughters, and a generation of computer-crazed boys was created, rather than boys and girls. Here's the link: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=487069271
Google "wants to change" that stereotype? WTF?
What if the other colors, creeds and sexes simply are not interested in computing (which seems to be the issue as of what Google thinks)?
This world is getting shittier every day. God damn it.
Surely Lisbeth Salander makes up for all of this?
Anyone who wants to be taken seriously as a gender equality advocate needs to firstly be vocal and vigorous in advocating against the societal pressures, demands, and unjustices that result in gender disparity w.r.t. longevity. That's right. First fix all the things that make men, statistically-speaking, die younger than women.
And then, for U.S. SJWs, make sure the U.S. Government treats men and women equally w.r.t. requirements for for Selective Service registration.
And then work to figure out why almost no women volunteer for front line combat duty in the Army and equalize that outcome ... the opportunity is certainly there.
We need equality in all the dangerous and life-expectancy-reducing activities and responsibilities before we need it anywhere else.
Speaking of Crichton movies, remember The Andromeda Strain? Great movie... And, if I'm not mistaken, a lead character who was a man in the book was cast as a middle-aged woman in the movie.
https://www.google.com/search?...
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The population we're talking about isn't "feminists who are coders" but "feminists who advocate coding but refuse to do it themselves". Those kinds of hypocrites are common.
No, that's the population you're talking about... but not what you actually said. If that's what you meant, you should have said it. Of course, if you had said it, your comment would have been:
Which is tautological.
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Are you kidding me? I literally said "feminists who advocate coding but refuse to do it themselves" both in the first posting and in the second.
Are you representative of the kind of people Google hires these days?
_it_will_self_regulate_ with women exiting the field.
It has. But phonies insist on blaming it on the industry (sexists! racists!) and pouring money and energy in programs to attract women to IT, instead of accepting that this is simply not the kind of work they want to do.
See, the stats are skewed because all we hear about in the media is the cool part of IT, like creating facebook bots using dockers on macbooks or tweaking snapchat GUIs using githubs and hadoop. But the reality is that the vast majority of IT workers do NOT work with "cool" stuff; they configure switches, schedule backups, monitor disk usage, calibrate sensor packs, debug unit tests in stale ERP packages, and often doing it on old clunky computers hidden in poorly lit cubicles. Tedious, repetitive work with little or no human interaction. These tasks can be done by any human being with the proper training, but they happen to attract males more than females. That's not sexist. So having diversity hiring programs just means that companies have to set aside waves of qualified candidates to find acceptable ones that have the right set of chromosomes. This is complete and absolute bullshit.
The nasty situations (such as the countless incidents at Uber and other places) are not the cause of the lack of women in IT, they're a consequence of it. Put a 15% minority in any situation and the same kind of patterns will appear, and this is made even worse in this case because IT doesn't simply attract male workers, it specifically attracts male workers that are either on the spectrum or real close, and have therefore less awareness of social manners.
So go fuck yourself with your "afraid of women" narrative. Anyone with a handful of brain cells can see what's really going on here, it's called hypocrisy and self-destructive political correctness. I understand that it's exciting for people like you to feel like you're brave pioneers fighting against a corrupt sexist system, but really you're just pathetic.
lucm, indeed.
......to improve its hiring base since Top Gun!
I actually tried. Apparently I wasn't 'passionate' enough about teaching. The gatekeepers want it to be a vocation rather than just a job.
So you failed and instead of it being your fault it must be because women are conspiring against all men (and ready to file harassment lawsuits against the ones who do make it past the gatekeepers). How convenient for you.
I live ze unknown. I love ze unknown. I am ze unknown.
Don't worry Google, if anyone disagrees with you you can fire them or create fake outrage!
Judges literally saying: "‘If you were a man you would be going to prison today’
http://www.crimeonline.com/201...
This (same crime in same circumstances getting wildly different punishment) is justified by 'correlation to testosterone"?
I did not join IT because I saw white males in the position and was inspired. I'm white.
I joined IT because I had a hobby that included lots of computer work, and I loved it.
You know why people don't want to do IT?
It's freaking hard. And most people do not want to deal with it.
I almost don't want to deal with it anymore because of this PC crap. I'm continually told, by trash articles such as this, I'm no different than anyone else in the field.
Well let me tell you this. I AM different. I AM better than most. But to help uphold the humility I do have, I love computers, and I am only this good at it, because of that very reason.
People who do not love it, will never be as good as those who do. And you cannot instill that no matter the click-bait or whatever tantrums are satisfied by Google, Apple, or whoever else who thinks they need more minorities, genders, etc. Because the truth of the matters are, minorities are only minorities as long as they're the smaller portion. But all of this is crap. And YOU'RE basing the quality of ones' work on the color of their skin. You're an idiot Google. You're an idiot Apple. You're an idiot 'insert company here'.
Stop doing that.
The Matrix was basically about a bunch of hackers. I think there was one white guy in the bunch... the Mouse guy with the bleeding ears. Otherwise, you had Neo, who is half-Hawaiian, Trinity and lots of females in general, Morpheus and lots of black or brown people, a New Zealander, etc. Tank that had the cool Latino(?) accent. Almost forgot Cypher... he is a white guy.
Essentially all the bad guys are pure white guys, and 99% of them are just programs.
Mr. Robot... the guy is Egyptian blooded. Is that white? Several black and female hackers on that show.
Anyway... just thought that was sort of interesting that even with The Matrix and a more modern "Mr. Robot" with a vast amount of non-white guy representation, we still need more apparently. I think people who care need to get back to the liberal basics... all humans are worth something no matter the color of their skin, where they come from, or their beliefs.
Everything short of raising salaries and:
- Treating them like human beings
- Giving any type of incentives like male only scholarships (like the female only ones being handed out left and right in engineering)
- Not throwing them under the bus the moment they are accused of anything
- - This one is the most important. It is extremely common for young girls to accuse their male teachers of abuse for social or monetary gain. So common, in fact, that it is the primary reason very few men enter or stay in teaching. It is far to high of a liability.
Sorry, but I will never go back to teaching. In California, unless you are a far left liberal, forget even thinking about teaching.
Science - it's a girl thing!
Why? Is that not realistic? Do they think somehow life is going to imitate art just because?