OSCON keynote: Standing out in the crowd

Posted Jul 29, 2009 14:42 UTC (Wed) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: OSCON keynote: Standing out in the crowd by nix
Parent article: OSCON keynote: Standing out in the crowd

let's have a thought experiment. Room full of women, man speaks up: is he likely to get shouted down, even if what he says is controversial? Now flip the sexes. Is the result the same?

Let's have an other thought experiment: room full of men, a woman they all know enters - will anyone tell her "Oh, you have put on some weight, haven't you?". If the room is full of women, my girlfriend is pretty sure that someone will mention those extra kilos.

An other thought experiment: I'm standing at a koncert in the thightly packed arena and a couple of guys are elbowing their way to the first line. I think you'd guess that males would tell those guys off - but in my experience it's always females who tell these kinds of guys off.