As I sat next to her, watching her draw on her free Surface Pro and text on her free Lumia, I was thinking about the projects I was working on, the weekends upon weekends I had spent in highschool tinkering around in a shell, and yeah, it pissed me off. I'm not by any means claiming that women can't code, that's ridiculous. I've coded with with women that are incredible thinkers. I just think this is a problem, is all. Meritocracy over everything.
A relevant blog post by weev (and i'll note, here's a trigger warning if you can't deal with his white victim complex and some name calling): http://weev.livejournal.com/409913.html
Feminism shouldn't be about "We had to go through this, so now you have to."
It should be about "Nobody should have to go through this."
No.
> have you considered the possibility that you aren't as good as you think you are.
Every day, more than you can imagine.
It's a long road from here to there, but this is encouraging.
But it's not clear how you distinguish between what's an appropriate correction to historical discrimination and what's overcompensation. If the bias were in favor of an over-represented group, it would be more clear -- but that's not what we're seeing. Women are grossly underrepresented in STEM faculty, and the only way to correct that is to hire a greater share of them and to use their gender as a positive discriminating factor in hiring.
I don't believe either of us are in a position to judge whether that should best manifest as a 2:1 ratio during resume reviews, a 1.1:1 ratio in finalized hires, or a 5:1 ratio in outreach, or some other arbitrary number during some other arbitrary phase.
No, it's sexism.
A non-sexist world would have 1:1, or no preference based on gender, declared or perceived.
The whole point is weeding out sexism. A non-sexist world is 1:1 in terms of preference.
