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Aurora: DEFCON: Why conference harassment matters

Aurora: DEFCON: Why conference harassment matters

Posted Aug 19, 2012 14:41 UTC (Sun) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: Aurora: DEFCON: Why conference harassment matters by ssmith32
Parent article: Aurora: DEFCON: Why conference harassment matters

I would conjecture that the point is to drive home that repelling women from these events is not merely a matter of excluding them from a social occasion, but a category of acts, conduct, and negligence functionally indistinguishable (per Hanlon's Razor) from a wilful attempt to exclude women from working in computing-related fields.


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