White Male “Allies” Have Little to Say About Fixing Sexist Tech Culture

http://readwrite.com/2014/10/09/technology-sexism-male-allies-grace-hopper-celebration

by awwducks • 12 years ago

19 5 12 years ago

I suppose this sort of thing sadly isn't surprising but I'd hate for it to overshadow the good and important things coming out of the Grace Hopper Conference. Hoping more of that comes to light.

kelukelugames• 12 years ago

I hate attitudes like this because it alienates people more than it helps.

Yes, men have little idea of what women go through. It's frustrating explaining the same shit over and over again. But how does it help to criticize without offering any encouragement or explanation?

Did MLK jr say something like "our goal is not to humiliate the white men"?

orasis• 12 years ago

Fixing sexist tech culture is simple. It gets fixed the same way that sexist legal culture and sexist medical culture got fixed - more women.

Spend any amount of time in any environment that is mostly dudes, and things get funky real fast. Its just a function of having a male supermajority.

brandonmenc• 12 years ago

@shanley tweets:

No male from GoDaddy has ANY business being on a "male allies" panel. GoDaddy has done YEARS of SERIOUS harm to women in tech.

She tweets to GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving, "you should definitely step down from this panel."

From the article:

Irving took the CEO post in December 2012 and put a stop to the [busty model] ads

What's going on here?

kelea• 12 years ago

It's exasperating that instead of acknowledging that the tech industry culture is broken, their advice is lean in. Basically, it's on women alone to step-up and address this rather then the male leaders saying there needs to be a fundamental change.

White Male “Allies” Have Little to Say About Fixing Sexist Tech Culture

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