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clothing & victim blamingclothing & victim blamingPosted Dec 2, 2010 12:57 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)In reply to: clothing & victim blaming by maco Parent article: The dark side of open source conferences
Please read again what I wrote. I didn't write to dress up properly to avoid getting assaulted. I wrote to dress up in respect to fellow male open source enthusiasts who find it uncomfortable to be around females in short skirts and deep cleavages. It is not about not being able to control ourselves. It's about being uncomfortable. I don't know which part of the world you live, but at least in my part the stores have other kind of clothes too. I have four female colleagues and haven't seen neither their knees or breasts even though sometimes they come to my desk and bend towards my monitor.
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clothing & victim blaming Posted Dec 2, 2010 14:32 UTC (Thu) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]
I (a male) often wear shorts to conferences, especially ones like LCA and GUADEC held in the summer of hot countries. Is this OK, or does that make you uncomfortable too?
clothing & victim blaming Posted Dec 2, 2010 20:33 UTC (Thu) by airlied (subscriber, #9104) [Link]
There was a certain shorts wearer that did make a lot of people uncomfortable at a lot of conferences.
clothing & victim blaming Posted Dec 3, 2010 3:52 UTC (Fri) by fuhchee (subscriber, #40059) [Link]
Perhaps another way to say this is that people should avoid dressing & behaving in ways, that if pictured during conference presentations as clip-art, someone would be made uncomfortable by it.
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