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Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age (ieee.org)
Tekla Perry writes: Historian Marie Hicks, speaking at the Computer History Museum talks about how women computer operators and programmers were driven out of the industry, gives examples of sexual harassment dating back to the days of the Colossus era, and previews her next research. "It's all a matter of power, Hicks pointed out -- and women have never had their share of it," reports IEEE Spectrum. "Women dominated computer programming in its early days because the field wasn't seen as a career, just a something someone could do without a lot of training and would do for only a short period of time. Computer jobs had no room for advancement, so having women 'retire' in their 20s was not seen as a bad thing. And since women, of course, could never supervise men, Hicks said, women who were good at computing ended up training the men who ended up as their managers. But when it became clear that computers -- and computer work -- were important, women were suddenly pushed out of the field."
Hicks has also started looking at the bias baked into algorithms, specifically at when it first crossed from human to computer. The first example she turned up had "something to do with transgender people and the government's main pension computer." She says that when humans were in the loop, petitions to change gender on national insurance cards generally went through, but when the computer came in, the system was "specifically designed to no longer accommodate them, instead, to literally cause an error code to kick out of the processing chain any account of a 'known transsexual.'"
Hicks has also started looking at the bias baked into algorithms, specifically at when it first crossed from human to computer. The first example she turned up had "something to do with transgender people and the government's main pension computer." She says that when humans were in the loop, petitions to change gender on national insurance cards generally went through, but when the computer came in, the system was "specifically designed to no longer accommodate them, instead, to literally cause an error code to kick out of the processing chain any account of a 'known transsexual.'"
When you redefine sexual harassment as any unwanted attempt to connect then sexual harassment is quite common indeed, and I have been sexually harassed by a number of women as well by that definition.
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"specifically designed to no longer accommodate them, instead, to literally cause an error code to kick out of the processing"
Perhaps because the process as it currently exists can't handle input for individuals who have previously been recorded as both sexes having been coded to expect each record to have male or female. In which case kicking it out manually probably expedites the solution.
I'm all out of popcorn and have to go to the shops to get some.
Could you all hold off for half an hour?
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"It's all a matter of power, Hicks pointed out -- and women have never had their share of it,"
It's a fair argument, but rednecks would be one of the last groups I'd expect to stand up for women's rights.
"It's all a matter of power, Hicks pointed out -- and women have never had their share of it,"
Here is some blatant Marxist propaganda, and very false at that.
Rich versus poor, Higher class versus lower class, oppressor versus oppressed, winner versus loser, fit versus unfit, selected by nature for life versus selected by nature for death....and then they project this pattern, to which I could concede to an honest Marxist that there is at least some truth, onto something to which there is absolutely no truth: left ear versus right ear, left eye versus right eye, left hand versus right hand, left brain versus right brain, man versus women.
First they begin by greatly (and most often disingenuously and falsely) characterizing the tradition wealth disparity.
Then when you're worked up about that they slide in a similar image trying to get you to look on something entirely different with the same eyes. There are critical differences that you're more likely to ignore in an emotional state. They build up this emotion in the culture day after day, year after year, generation after generation until there is enough of this capital of human irrationality to slice a civilization in halves like a hatchet would split a bone lengthwise, and then they consume the marrow.
Men and woman are complementary forces with distinct tendencies in behavior, many of which seem opposite for a given situation. I'm not going to go on about this, but that Damore Memo doesn't go nearly far enough. This is supposed by the Marxists to be "sexist". Sorry, but by your definition nature itself is "sexist", "wrong" and "evil".
When a human tribe encounters a problem, men and women (are supposed to) attend to their different domains in order to cover all the aspects of the situation.
This fool featured in the article goes on to attribute the necessities of economic forces to the ill will of "the patriarchy" with absolutely no logical argument.
The simplest observation flips his narrative upside down to show its yellow belly: the industrialists don't care how the work gets done, they just want more work to get done. They don't see their slaves, so why would they care what they look like? They only care how to extract more labor from the population, which is why they drive wedges between us with the media, schools, and universities, which, of course, they own nearly all of. In this way they open up more shafts in their huge mine through unstable areas of the earth, getting at the gold they never could have reached before.
So really, all that is going on right now is that some rich people are telling you that certain other rich people are bad so they can take their wealth and create even more disparity all the while giving you a tiny sliver of it and using technology to distract you from the overall astronomical growth of wealth of humanity.
Conspiracy theory you say?
This easy rejection of anything you don't want to hear is a canker, so I'll give a brief rebuttal. In short, look at the stock market. Everyone is invested in everyone else's business. So a collective interest forms. When you have a great deal of wealth you can afford to invest in everyone who shows promise, and so you profit greatly from the vast majority of successes and so gain influence over every success, many to a great degree. If you don't end up controlling a given success, odds are you know some one who does and has a significant stake in one of your own investments.
And so the birthing grounds for conspiracy take form.
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Women dominated computer programming in its early days
Reading the articles about it, it sounds more like they dominated operating the machines, not designing the actual software (or hardware).
The PGOTUS and a bunch of Congress Critters too, to the tune of $17M in payouts that you and I – the taxpayers – paid for.
Not good value for my tax dollars.
I'm currently out of mod points or I'd mod you back up. The Nazis don't like the truth.
when humans were in the loop, petitions to change gender on national insurance cards generally went through, but when the computer came in, the system was "specifically designed to no longer accommodate them, instead, to literally cause an error code
That sounds like a requirements fault. Maybe somebody should fix systems that fail to adapt the legislative changes relevant to them? Or even audit and sign off the requirements before they are used to implement systems? Noo, that would be impossible since we are not building a house here.
That's funny, in my 35 year career as a software engineer I've had my share; perhaps 40% of my managers have been women. And they were generally pretty good too. I can't say the same for the men managers I've had. There were one or two who were atrocious.
And yes, I'm male.
But plenty of totally unverifiable anecdotes!
Sounds like a good basis to instigate social change!
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I've been harassed by men. I've been harassed by women. in my case anyway, none of it has ever been sexual. Just because it's between a man and a woman doesn't automatically make it sexual harassment.
Is that so many young women today are utterly deluded about their attractiveness. I have seen plenty of women who, all made up and ready for a night on the town, are no better than a "6" who seriously believe they're hot stuff. Like really believe they're hawwwwt and normal men should count themselves lucky to even buy them coffee. It's really bad with the college-educated set who also often scoff at the idea of blue collar men, even if they make more money than the average man in their social circle.
This is why our grandmothers' generation often cannot believe what they're hearing when they drill down into what a lot of "harassment" is. It's because they're thinking "honey, you ain't the prettiest girl in the office, you keep acting like a stuck up bitch to guys who are an even match for you and you're liable to end up a cat herder in your 50s."
The feminists find they miss it because it means men either don't find them attractive anymore or are at least just flat out ignoring them.
A normal man who flirts with a normal woman isn't being an asshole, even if he doesn't immediately stop. Plenty of women who end up in happy LTRs will laugh and say "his persistence is what got me" or something to that effect. Women usually don't respect men who obediently go away the moment she says "not interested."
Granted, there may be a cultural difference here. I'm a southerner working in a big metropolitan region in the south. I have never seen ANY of the sort of in-your-face behavior in our offices that one would believe is par for the course on the West Coast. So my assumption is normal flirting and push-pull, not "hey babe, wanna fuck in the bathroom?" to a female colleague.
Go figure. Probably would have helped if they had any social skills or tact.
Please note, I fully support just about everything that Ms. Hicks says in her article, I invite you to click on the link provided and see more details. However there is one claim that she makes (in the original article) that I wish was substantiated:
"The British computing industry, both governmental and private sector, hemorrhaged talent, she says—and essentially lost its lead in tech because of it."
I'm sure the British computing industry DID hemorrhage talent because of this pervasive bigotry (like against gays, R.I.P. Alan Turing) but did it "lose its lead" because of it? Doesn't that imply that conditions were better in other, competing countries? I'm sure they were in some, I've heard that the Soviet Union valued women much more equally than the West; however I'm assuming she's referring to the U.S. Were conditions in America that much better? (Maybe they were, I didn't see the movie "Hidden Figures"; how did that portray Minority(!) women doing high level STEM work? Was it accurate?)
As far as I'm concerned women make excellent programmers, the top coder in our company that has exceptional talent (numerous winners of national mathematics/programming awards) is a woman. To that end, we've actually designed the facility to make sexual harassment more difficult (like glass doors to all non-rest rooms so that nobody thinks they can make a move on someone without possibly being seen).
...when the summary adequately communicates the size of the chip on the author's shoulders.
I don't doubt women still get sexually harassed, or that it was more common and accepted in the past. I ALSO don't doubt this 'historian' is so biased she sees sexual abuse in men saying 'good morning' to her and has no sense of humor at all.
When I talk about why I have a problem with feminists because people like this represent the movement (never mind that the movement itself is sexist because it's only interested in women - give me egalitarianism any day), THIS is the kind of person who is the velvet glove over the iron fist of the man-hating feminists.
Oddly enough, as a man, I have a huge issue with people who assume I'm a woman-abusing monster because I have a penis.
Nothing is wrong with self confidence. Of course if they're constantly interjecting and broadcasting this that's a different story...
But anyway it seems shallow if the self confidence they get comes from copying the terrible role models they have on TV and ads on the internet, as well as online catalogs, which is probably where all the makeup and clothes ideas come from.
That and it's hard for a woman to buy clothes that are properly cut and don't have a deep V neck or ride up on the stomach, or lately those ridiculous pleats in the middle of the chest that make it look like the shirt is tight. Even in games, women like that are heavily featured. Games like Skyrim don't feature fat people, Lara Croft manages to be shaved and groomed even though deep in the jungle, everyone in Uncharted is a love interest, the women of Overwatch are all made to be attractive, and anime is a huge offender there too.
Unfortunately TV shows and clothes designers are all contributing to this mentality.
*yawn
... Nearly all of it is merely an accusation. Someone complains... someone says X or Y...
Tell you what, you're all pedophile alien vampires from the wizard dimension.
Listen and believe.
Here someone will say "but bad things can happen if we require evidence before burning people at the stake."
Which is why its a good thing we caught your pedophile alien vampire ass from the wizard dimention... you know... before you got up to something freaky.
Whilst bad things can happen if you don't just burn anyone that a finger is pointed at, a society where "that" constitutes grounds for destruction is a society where people are going to have to find elaborate ways to defend themselves from social predators that exploit that power to extort people.
What is more, the most socially sophisticated people will use this power to dominate the less socially sophisticated. There will be less freedom, less fairness, less regard for the weak... it will be increasingly backstabby and ruthless.
And that's okay.
What we saw from Al Franken the other day was the perfect summation of what is going on here.
Franken says "all women must be listened to."
Franken says "all the women that said I did bad things are liars or are confused."
Franken says "It is silly that I be removed from the Senate on this basis"
Franken says "It is absurd that that Pedophile in Alabama be allowed to stay and the sexual predator in the white house be allowed to stay."
See... its a double edged sword that some people are too dumb to understand cuts both ways. Some people in our society are trying to wield this weapon. And it is ripping them apart. What they want is a double standard. Where they can use this weapon to annihilate anyone simply by making an accusation without having it blow back upon themselves.
They will accomplish nothing. They will sacrifice to the flame one after the other in the foolish belief that eventually they'll be able to land a telling blow upon some ideological enemy that will be worth the sacrifice.
Sadly, they don't understand that it is a weapon that only effects those that believe in it. If their own belief were more cynical they could cow some of their opposition into submission with it at an economical rate. But if they believe in it and their opposition does things like "ask for evidence"... then the progressives cut themselves up trying to use a weapon that they don't understand.
What is more, and all the more tragically... even IF they were able to totally annihilate their opposition with this weapon... it would destroy the rest of society if only because it would not stop.
This is how witch trials work. You make an accusation that you saw someone dancing around the fires summoning demons as a witch... and then in the morning light... your little church group goes over there to hang the person by the neck until dead.
Once you've stripped out all the incidents that are hearsay... what is left?
Some will disagree... That is okay... the flames dance for us all and they don't care which of us gets hip checked into the blaze. What higher justice than to be burned in the flame of your own kindling?
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Wish we could block all this fake news
..that whoman have to complain all the time.
They have the right to do what ever they like.
Complaining is just one thing.
But it seems to take up an awful lot of time and space.
Why?
That "Brogrammer" culture goes back to when programming was usually done with pen and paper and then punched onto cards to be submitted as part of a batch job to be fed into a room-sized mainframe computer." This is about as much news as the sun rising in the morning,
Can't believe this was modded up. I guess nerds are really assholes through and through.
Some human computers were retread as computer programmers, prettymuch as depicted innthe Hidden Figures movie. Non-blacks too.
Most areas have friendly neighborhood prostitutes who you can harass for very reasonable rates, perhaps $25 to $150. The more things change the more they stay the same.
I haven't harassed a woman in my life, but you keep talking about my profession like it's a cesspool of harassment, which is not true. You're incessantly damaging my well-being and reputation. Stop it!
None of those examples are just attempts to connect
We used to have established societal expectations that helped to minimize the suffering of the weaker members.
Where the societal expectation was that the most powerful men would have almost all the women, and where most men's options were limited to prostitutes, rape or taking the shilling to increase the opportunity for either.
A politician "said so", so it must be true, right?! I mean, everything he says is a lie if it looks like it puts him in a good light, but if it puts him in a negative view, it must be true!
Grace Hopper *was* a developer. Did amazing work. Wrote one of the first compilers. Remington Rand made her director of programming languages for the UNIVAC project. She made rank of Captain in the Navy, then honorary rank of Commodore (then Rear Admiral.) They named a ship after her.
But nobody seems to talk about her that much these days. Weird.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
when humans were in the loop, petitions to change gender on national insurance cards generally went through, but when the computer came in, the system was "specifically designed to no longer accommodate them
I'm going to have to call BS on this one. Back in the days before automation, a request to change gender (particularly in Britain) would get you a trip to the local police department, much like Alan Turing. Once computers were brought in, the lack of a change process (without extraordinary circumstances) just carried forward from manual methods of recordkeeping.
Have gnu, will travel.
But she wasn't forgotten. There was a 60 minutes piece about her in the 1980's. Back when people in the computer industry didn't often make the news. Reagan making her Commodore made the news and the papers. Everyone in the industry knew her, and a lot of people outside of the industry did, too.
But nowadays when people mention women in the computer industry they talk about Ada Lovelace... and that's pretty much it.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
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https://www.aspergerstestsite.... Where do you fall on the spectrum?
Sexual harassment is basically an ugly guy trying to get some. If it were her crush, she'd see him as taking the lead
At work, most of the project managers, team leaders, service delivery managers and what else, are women.The people they are managing are all men.
A lot of things were different 60 years ago.
L'Idiot
Again, maybe it's a cultural thing, but a lot of the boorish behavior making the news is just not something you hear about in "fly over country" and the south in the workplace. Where I live, you whip your dick out in front of a colleague you've got a greater than 90% chance of getting fired with cause the moment she utters the words "he showed me his dick." Management won't even ask if consent was involved; whip your dick out and it's security has you by the arm, you're getting a gentle push toward your car. If you just grabbed your colleague's boobs, it'd probably involve asking "do you want us to call the police too?"
Fact is, Weinstein and Lauer would probably be under criminal investigation in most of the deep south. The shit these men pulled on women would not fly before corporate counsel or a court of law around here.
The field is still this way. Agism is rampant and fingers often wear out. The "proper" goal is to somehow slip into management.
Table-ized A.I.
I work in ICT, I'm male, 32 years old. My boss is ~65 years old and is a sexist pig. It's pretty fucking simple. I have an older sister. I'd hate for her to be treated the way people in my company treat women. It's not ok, and it's not just "boys being boys". We're adults, not fucking 13 year olds. None of our corporate clients would tolerate the shit that goes on in our office. There needs to be a cultural shift and it needs to hurry up.
Von Neumann has an early computer architecture named after him. Everyone who takes a computer architecture class knows who he is. One of my professors brought up the "Goto Considered Harmful" paper as well.
In the general populace, not so much, but the article in question is talking about the computer industry specifically.
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the system was "specifically designed to no longer accommodate them, instead, to literally cause an error code to kick out of the processing chain any account of a 'known transsexual.'
Seriously? The system wasn't "specifically designed" to "cause an error code" - it was programmed to process male or female, nothing more than that. The "human" system let the worker take an eraser and change an "F" to an "M" under gender as the person requested.
The system was designed to accommodate an "F" or "M" in the gender position, it's no more nefarious than that. That a computer system is now designed to accommodate any Unicode character for gender doesn't mean it "supports" transgender rights.
This is like arguing that older COBOL programs were designed assuming the world would end before the year 2000, so they didn't allow for "century" in date fields, optiong instead for only a two-digit number to represent year.
Ken
I don't give a flying fuck about women in tech anymore. Everything makes women feel sexually harassed these days. One day I'll be thrown in jail for saying hi to them when they didn't ask for it.
If they're too weak for the environment, then they better ship the fuck out. Better yet, segregate men and women in the work place, this shit isn't working out.
Because of all this social agenda s*** I have to redefine words in my mind until I have evidence to the contrary.
Sexual Harassment = A man that had the balls to make a pass at a woman or ask to go out on a date.
Sexual Offender = Someone that got drunk and pissed on a tree.
Amber Alert = A disgruntled man that temporarily takes his own child because of a child custody case/situation.
As to the article/subject itself... men and women are different.(Why is that so hard to believe?) They have different but overlapping bell curves for aggressiveness. Compound that by a subject matter that attracts solitary people that generally have slight to moderate autistic anti-social issues.
If you support Trump and Moore you are a worthless piece of shit! I will make it my mission in life to see you removed from the gene pool. You are anti-American, sleeze-bag. On the other hand, if you think that women are "forced" out of Tech, you are a fucking liar. Get a fucking grip.
You will not survive oppression of an low woman like hilly. Unlike alpha males they kniw no biological bounds to the conflict.
There is no gray zone in sexual harassment. If you think you're in a gray zone, you've fucked up already. This has been covered in sexual harassment training for at least a generation now. Let's actually try to get it right this time.
There is one way, and only one way to act at work, and that is professional. If you're being "friendly" with co-workers, you're doing this wrong. (Customer oriented "friendliness" is good... do we need to go over why there's a difference?)
If you're a man, you are seen as powerful whether you are or not. Figure your shit out, and get more friends outside of work if you need to. If you're a woman, it's a good idea to start thinking along these lines. If men are going to adopt stricter professionalism, acting differently will get you labeled "unprofessional."
In general, this is not going to make advancement easier for women. There are different social rules being emphasized, and this is going to bias men towards trusting other men. There's a new value signalling language being developed right now. It's being developed by the people in power, and if you don't learn it fast, you're not going to be joining them.
If you're hearing things like "people need to fit into the company culture," know that that is a dog-whistle for lawyers to come sue your company. That is the old language. This is a big change and quickly moving. "Company culture" is a real thing, and is actually important to the success of a business. It is also understood to be the excuse in the last 15 years for a lot of behavior that isn't actually legal. I don't know what's going to replace "culture" as the watchword for whether work groups are well run, but I suspect it's going to be something around professionalism.
Just separate the genders. Give them their own part of the building so we can please focus on getting the job done. This is getting out of hand. I understand both points of view but at this point both sides need a timeout until there can be some kind of reasonable solution we can come to.
It's almost 2018 and we're having these kinds of problems?!
Sexual Harrassment in Movies is as old as the Studios.
Sexual Harrassment in Politics is as old as the Government.
Sexual Harrassment in Business is as old as Business.
Sexual Harrassment in {Insert anything} is as old as {anything}.
Basically, it's a demonstration that power corrupts, and often that corruption takes the form of sexual harrassment. Not just in Tech, but can occur in any environment.
We don't need a specious term called "sexual harassment" because we got objective rules against blackmail, extortion, rape, assault, etc. "sexual harassment" is an euphemism for dumb people like when you read in the obituary it says "died of natural causes" well they weren't dead before so obviously something unnatural happened. These type of idiots cannot accept an unknown variable and will literally lock up on the spot. Why is it that any crime perpetrated upon the opposite gender is always deemed "sexual harassment"?
You're not the brightest guy on /., aren't you?
No women in office no sexual harasment.
Historian Marie Hicks doesn't know the difference between a business rule and an algorithm.
Could the reason be that she's a historian?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I'm not sure why everyone is just focusing on sexual harassment and not harassment in general. Males and females alike have to endure harassment at the workplace all the time and that's what we need to work toward eliminating. In my experience the same guy that sexual harasses women at work acts like a douche bag to everyone he works with and harasses men too.
Also, any woman would interpret any transaction initiated by an unfamiliar man as an attempt to flirting. This includes business interactions as well.
I grew up too late to really experience the loose, carefree nightlife of the 70s, but even as a 12-year-old I got a sense of how liberated people were. They're so uptight now.
Yes, harassment went on then too. But it wasn't the moral equivalent of rape, you just slapped somebody or chewed them out or shrugged it off.
Guess what? I've been groped and pinched and kissed against my will. No harm done. People will make you feel bad in lots of ways, and that's what dumfounds me about these latest allegations.
"Oh, a senator pinched my butt! It made me feel bad!" Yeah, you must be traumatized for life, snowflake. Grow up.
the tech industry. Sexual harassment is actually as old as the human race, but this article narrowed the focus to "tech" jobs, so I guess by definition you can't go before the beginning of the tech industry.
As far as the transgender issues go I've yet to see a published ISO spec for what a gender field should look like.
How many chars of storage should be devoted to it? Is there at least a unicode symbol to denote a non-binary agender anteater-kin? Or should the field be stored as a BLOB and always rendered as a memo field? In fact, I just typed "agender" into Firefox and it's not even in Firefox's dictionary. That's highly problematic.
Sexual Harassment ... Is As Old As the Proterozoic Eon.
Sex first developed a billion years ago, and since then, males have been giving females lots of attention, wanted or not.
Ever watched a nature show on PBS? Ever notice that in every species the males pursue and badger the females? Why? Because it is in their DNA and has been for the last billion years.
If you think humans, who have the same ancestors as those animals, are any different, you are deceiving yourself.
Really? Where? Nowhere in Europe since Christianity took over has polygamy been tolerated. And even in the near east where it was permissible, the vast majority of men had one wife, with polygamy reserved for the very rich and limited to four women apiece. While some men in all society remain unmarried for a variety of reasons, nowhere has this been the norm.
Nowhere in Europe since Christianity took over has polygamy been tolerated
Adultery has, though. Mistresses have not been uncommon at all. The more powerful the man, the more accepted it has been. Not to mention droit de seigneur. Or bedwarmers. Or serial monogamy.
Large parts of Europeans can trace their genes back to kings.
1. Sexual harassment in metallurgy is as old as the bronze age
2. Sexual harassment in the building industry is as old as Uruk
3. Sexual harassment in airline industry is as old as the airline industry
4. Sexual harassment in the car industry is as old as the first women to drive cars
5. Sexual harassment during war is as old as war itself
6. Sexual harassment around an open fire is as old as the invention of fire
It doesn't matter if women are "sexually harassed" or not. It does not matter to anything important at all. If they can't stand up for themselves and function in their job against adversity, they need to stay in the house and exist in their traditional role. We don't need them to work. Men can do everything woman can do in the economy.
Our society is becoming completely and totally unhinged because of all the double standards. Everyone is going insane. We do not need to adapt the workplace to women. Women need to adapt to the workplace. The weak must adapt to nature. Nature must not adapt to the weak.
This is all a symptom of the rampant interventionism of the government in every aspect of life. The plutocrats are simply destabilizing every aspect of society they can access with government, education, and media so they can manipulate us into giving up our humanity and becoming worker drones.
We need to destroy this system and start over or we are all going to be turned into insane brainless slaves who exist for purpose other than work. Humanity is being destroyed and you are letting it happen because "the poor women and minorities can't exist on their own strength in the 'white patriarchy'"
FUCK the women and FUCK the minorities. If they can't play with the big boys then they can go back to the kitchen and the sandbox. We have no obligation to interrupt our productivity to let them participate. In fact we have an obligation to stop them from participating if they can't roll with the punches.
We can't breed weakness into our society because some complete losers have hurt feelings. They should feel LUCKY to have nothing more than hurt feelings, because if nature has it's say they would be DEAD.
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In this day and age, that would quickly lead to somebody a half mile away from the King's motorcade with an army of explosive drones dropping out of the sky.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
This is just pre-canned marxist / feminist dogma.
"It's all a matter of power, Hicks pointed out -- and women have never had their share of it,"
It's all a matter of free wheeling, over-sprawled, flimsy generalizations.
Why is harassment worse in IT for women? The author doesn't care. It's just thumping marxist / feminist POWER POWER POWER.
I think you don't know what the word fascist means.