Comment on Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech

carl_dungeon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• LinuxSBC@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Including non-binary people was not the problem. Relevant quote:

  “AnitaB.org, the nonprofit that runs the conference, said there was “an increase in participation of self-identifying males” at this year’s event. The nonprofit says it believes allyship from men is important and noted it cannot ban men from attending due to federal nondiscrimination protections in the US.”

  They identified as male, not non-binary, and the event allowed men to come.

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  • Otome-chan@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So they identified as men, and the event allowed the men to come? Then I'm failing to see what the issue is?

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    • jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The problem is, the event’s not allowed to discriminate officially. The article is about lamenting the ability to discriminate

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      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m sure so many people right now have that shit eating grin, especially after reading

        The nonprofit says it believes allyship from men is important and noted it cannot ban men from attending due to federal nondiscrimination protections in the US.

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    • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      the article quotes a bunch of people frustrated at pushing, shoving, line cutting etc at the job fair portion that weren’t visiting - basically people who didn’t want to listen to the speeches but wanted to throw out resumes, fuck everyone else.

      IMO they could solve the problem with a stamp system for people who sat through a presentation but its kind of shitty to have to do that.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It also mentioned how some were lying about their identity, but I’m not sure how they figured that out

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • disposabletentacle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    you have to specify what genders of nonbinary are/aren’t welcome

    "Genders of nonbinary"

    My friend, nonbinary is a gender. This is like asking what type of bird a chicken is.

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    • raptir@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s a bad analogy, because a chicken is a Galliform.

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      • disposabletentacle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I knew it. I felt it the second I typed it that there was something wrong with the analogy and someone who knows birds more than me would come along and point it out. I posted the analogy anyway. That's on me.

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      • ChrisLicht@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        TIL chickens can time travel.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nonbinary is a category of genders much like intersex is a category of sexes. It contains everything from agender to bigender to demigenders and all sorts of others. Much like how intersex can mean anything from completely ambiguous reproductive structures to anomalies of the sex chromosomes to natural hormone imbalance starting at puberty as well as several other traits. Sometimes it’s relevant to narrow it down.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What are the genders of non-binary?

    And while you’re here, is yellow more of a blue or red?

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    • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yellow is far closer to red than blue… blue has a wavelength of ~570 nm, while red is ~615 nm and blue ~470 nm.

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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is like saying that I’m closer to being a New Yorker than a Californian, because I live in North Carolina.

        Sure, something is “closer”, but it is completely distinct and has little to do with either.

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But that’s only in RGBW, how about in CYMK?

        /s

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  • sky@codesink.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Right, like the ones with vaginas are cool and the ones with penises aren’t?

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    • TheYear2525@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This just sounds like sexes with extra steps.

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  • jarfil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    what genders of nonbinary are/aren’t welcome

    Like, intergender is fine, but genderless is not…? or the other way around?

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If this group organized and got on the phone to coordinate the employers to show up, they have every right to make the job fair for whoever they like I would think.

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  • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Exactly like Java vs Python vs C++

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