<story><title>Please Stop Asking Me to Speak About Women in Technology</title><url>http://www.snipe.net/2014/05/please-stop-asking-me-to-speak-about-women-in-technology/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The industry would be 80-85% men in perpetuity? I can understand the author&amp;#x27;s desire not to have gender be such a big issue. But it is a big issue whether we talk about it or not, and if we don&amp;#x27;t talk about it, we&amp;#x27;ll never fix it.</text></item><item><author>clavalle</author><text>Hear, hear.&lt;p&gt;I wonder what would happen if we all collectively decided to act like the revolution of diversity in tech has already happened?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clavalle</author><text>How does talking about it fix it?&lt;p&gt;Wouldn&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;behaving&lt;/i&gt; as if we are living in a world where there is no underrepresented group in tech be better?  Where it is no surprise that a woman be interviewed and hired for a position?  That a little girl building robots and taking apart electronics is just kind of the way things go?  That encouraging all children to excel in tech is the norm?  Where it is a little strange that a women be asked to speak about a social issue at a tech conference?&lt;p&gt;It seems that calling attention to bad actors all of the time is kind of like calling attention to school shooters -- suddenly, to the younger more impressionable generation, there is a new alternative to their behavior that they were previously unaware of.</text></comment>
<story><title>Please Stop Asking Me to Speak About Women in Technology</title><url>http://www.snipe.net/2014/05/please-stop-asking-me-to-speak-about-women-in-technology/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The industry would be 80-85% men in perpetuity? I can understand the author&amp;#x27;s desire not to have gender be such a big issue. But it is a big issue whether we talk about it or not, and if we don&amp;#x27;t talk about it, we&amp;#x27;ll never fix it.</text></item><item><author>clavalle</author><text>Hear, hear.&lt;p&gt;I wonder what would happen if we all collectively decided to act like the revolution of diversity in tech has already happened?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ctdonath</author><text>Problem is some people won&amp;#x27;t stop talking about &amp;quot;fixing it&amp;quot;, which gets really frustrating to those of us who have already &amp;quot;fixed it&amp;quot; and moved on. There really does come a point where incessant yelling about societal problems &lt;i&gt;becomes&lt;/i&gt; a problem and the continuing attempt to &amp;quot;fix&amp;quot; backfires.</text></comment>