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New comment by juridatenshi in "New Relic employees report unrest over work culture, CEO’s donations"

juridatenshi — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:27:19 +0000

> In September, Cirne told employees that Beloved in Christ will aid victims of the wildfires that burned more than 1 million acres across Oregon.

He mentioned his personal, religious charity at work and targeted it at all employees as part of a fundraising effort (admittedly for a good cause in this case). At that point, it's not just outside-of-work.

New comment by juridatenshi in "An open letter on feminism in tech"

juridatenshi — Thu, 22 May 2014 19:34:59 +0000

I see you've found the strawfeminists. http://www.harkavagrant.com/?id=341

HSSSSSSSSSS!

New comment by juridatenshi in "Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only"

juridatenshi — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 06:03:32 +0000

::looks at responses to @defunkt's twitter post::

1) it appears to be a pretty even mix of men and women responding positively. 2) a huge number of the people who responded positively (male and female) are in fact software engineers, some of them fairly well known (e.g. conference speakers), several of which work at big name companies.

So, uhhhh, what the hell are you on about?

New comment by juridatenshi in "The Power of a Pronoun"

juridatenshi — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 21:51:57 +0000

Being respectful of diverse groups of people and technical ability are not mutually exclusive.

New comment by juridatenshi in "Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm"

juridatenshi — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:56:34 +0000

1. Meritocracy is a myth. This is probably worth a read. http://www.garann.com/dev/2012/you-keep-using-that-word/

2. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. That does not mean they are free from consequences when they share that opinion publicly.

New comment by juridatenshi in "Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm"

juridatenshi — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:48:05 +0000

You keep using the term "lynch mob." I do not think that means what you think it means.

New comment by juridatenshi in "Shocking response from Facebook about request to remove this offensive page"

juridatenshi — Sat, 25 May 2013 17:41:16 +0000

There have been some studies that indicate these sorts of jokes may increase negative behaviors towards women, such as victim blaming. This is troubling because even if these jokes don't inspire someone to rape or assault someone, they may encourage them to act in a way that enables others to get away with doing so.

New comment by juridatenshi in "Shocking response from Facebook about request to remove this offensive page"

juridatenshi — Sat, 25 May 2013 13:50:23 +0000

That's because (hopefully) if you find them distasteful you're not the sort of person who thinks violence against women is awesome. The thing is, there are people out there who do think it is awesome. They tend to have a very different response to these sorts of "jokes" and imagery.

New comment by juridatenshi in "Shocking response from Facebook about request to remove this offensive page"

juridatenshi — Sat, 25 May 2013 13:43:59 +0000

Jokes like this can and do contribute to a culture where violence against women is a very real and regular thing. Regularly joking about how hilarious it is to beat and rape women normalizes it to a degree and encourages those who already think this is acceptable behavior.

New comment by juridatenshi in "Shocking response from Facebook about request to remove this offensive page"

juridatenshi — Sat, 25 May 2013 13:40:02 +0000

A huge number of the examples are encouraging raping, beating to a bloody pulp, and/or murdering women. The issues with them goes well beyond being offended. However, I'm guessing arguments about rape culture are unlikely to sway you if you think these are jokes and not hateful.

As a side note, facebook already censors a bunch of things. For example, they've taken down images of women breastfeeding if nipples are shown. It's kind of fucked up that the sight of nipples in a non-sexual context is worthy of a takedown, but encouraging violence against women is totally ok.

New comment by juridatenshi in "Open source is not a war zone"

juridatenshi — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:04:31 +0000

Yes, it's become so hard to be a man at tech conferences. They're so filled with hate for men that one could describe it as misandry. Did the feminazis also steal your ice cream?

New comment by juridatenshi in "GitHub donates private repositories to women learning open source software"

juridatenshi — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:13:15 +0000

If you're talking about many MRA groups, people would likely have a problem because they're considered hate groups by regarded organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Additionally, it's not like we have a dearth of men in programming. They seem to be doing just fine.

New comment by juridatenshi in "GitHub donates private repositories to women learning open source software"

juridatenshi — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:08:31 +0000

Definitely. I'm excited they're doing this, and I think it is useful. :)

The comment about hiring was mostly an aside as something else I wish they were taking more active efforts with in addition to efforts like this one.

New comment by juridatenshi in "GitHub donates private repositories to women learning open source software"

juridatenshi — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:53:37 +0000

Agreed with you about the donations. Tangentially, it would be cool if GitHub had more diversity in their software engineering staff - that is something they have control over.

New comment by juridatenshi in "Women, Tech Conferences and the Bullshit Surrounding It"

juridatenshi — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:28:54 +0000

Blinding combined with active outreach to get more people to submit to a CFP has helped several conferences improve their numbers. GoGaRuCo is the one that immediately comes to mind.

New comment by juridatenshi in "Homeless in Silicon Valley"

juridatenshi — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:14:04 +0000

There is some limited info from the CDC below.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5920a3.htm

New comment by juridatenshi in "Homeless in Silicon Valley"

juridatenshi — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:05:23 +0000

My anecdata on this is that level of stigma varies a lot based on the mental illness involved. Some mental illnesses (e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder) appear to be labeled very harshly by our culture and have a huge amount of stigma attached to them.

I'll see if I can dig up any journal articles or research on this.

New comment by juridatenshi in "My experiences in tech: Death by 1000 paper cuts"

juridatenshi — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:28:17 +0000

The shit last week absolutely scared some people. Some of us are steeled to get even louder because of it, but others were seriously considering being less visible or even dropping out. I'm not sure what the long-term effects will look like, only time will tell, but it absolutely negatively affected people in the tech industry.

As for Steve (and the others involved in the incident you mentioned), what they did was shitty. Behavior like that can have serious negative consequences as well. I was pretty pissed when that happened, and I really hope it's a mistake they won't make again (and if they do, they'll be getting an earful). However as far as I recall, the offending parties did apologize when called out.

We all fuck up, myself included. Apologies don't make everything better, but it's a world above people making death threats. I value allies who occasionally fuck up that I can call out on their shit over people who are regularly assholes and have no introspection when I call them on it. I've known both. The former has generally provided me with a support system. The latter has just tried to tear me down (see examples in my post).

Absolutely agreed on helping more than women.When I speak about personal experiences, they're mostly about women because that's my lived experience, but I am very much for helping a variety of people. Those who know me recognize me by my catchphrase, "MY TECHNOLOGY WILL BE INTERSECTIONAL OR IT WILL BE BULLSHIT!"

New comment by juridatenshi in "My experiences in tech: Death by 1000 paper cuts"

juridatenshi — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:33:33 +0000

This is all easy for you to say considering the privilege you mention. These things are academic to you. They are a real lived experience for some of us.

Also, I'm not terrified of drinking events at conferences. It's not like it's this super-fun thing I'm so sad I'm missing because I've got this unreasonable fear. They're things I skip sometimes because it's more fun to go do something else than risk dealing with bullshit (or on rare occasions actual risk).

New comment by juridatenshi in "My experiences in tech: Death by 1000 paper cuts"

juridatenshi — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:28:24 +0000

The intent of my blog posts (there's a few in the series) was to share my personal experiences and feelings. Not to explicitly label them as sexism or say everyone must share those feelings or say "hey you, you better go fix this" or any other number of things you seem to be attributing to it.

As for your comment about me being oversensitive, way to miss the point of the last paragraph of my post.