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Conferences may be more trouble than they are worthConferences may be more trouble than they are worthPosted Mar 25, 2013 9:48 UTC (Mon) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784)In reply to: Conferences may be more trouble than they are worth by sjj Parent article: Blum: Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
Are you referring to women in IT as "little girls"? I think it's obvious that they were not, especially from the broader context of the discussion. I recommend not looking for offence at every opportunity, instead giving people the benefit of the doubt even if you don't agree with their general position.
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Conferences may be more trouble than they are worth Posted Mar 26, 2013 0:16 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Curious. I read precisely the opposite from context than do you. Do you really think anyone is arguing that six-year-old children of any gender should work in IT?! Talk about straw women...
Conferences may be more trouble than they are worth Posted Mar 26, 2013 0:51 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]
> Do you really think anyone is arguing that six-year-old children of any gender should work in IT?!
http://www.google.com/search?q=adria+richards+little+girl
(I wonder where you got the "six-year-old" part from)
Conferences may be more trouble than they are worth Posted Mar 26, 2013 12:14 UTC (Tue) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]
Did you reply to the wrong post here? No-one was arguing that six-year-old children should work in IT. The encouragement of little girls and boys to become interested in computers (and one day in the future perhaps work in IT) was a theme at PyCon US, especially as they had tutorials for children and gave out Raspberry Pis to everyone. That's the wider context, not what the Internet mob had to say about it afterwards.
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