Manuela Malasañaduring my career as a graphics programmer ive been invited to speak on a few panels and every time its a huge honor, and i feel petty and ungrateful to complain about it, but every single one of those panels was a "woman" panel. women in STEM one, women in gamedev one, women in mixed reality, and so on. its like convention organizers are saying "you're very eminent in your field. i mean, like, for a girl"
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Johan K Sch@Xibanya reminds me of when I and my fellow summer substitute editorialist at a local newspaper ran a series of interviews inverting such narratives, such as:
* What prejudice do you face as a male CEO of a major company?
* How do coaches, team mates and supporters handle you being a straight professional male football player?
* To what extent has your being a non-immigrant constrained your career as a top politician?
Jack C.@Xibanya my wife wrote a kids song about this. It's so crazy that this kind of bias is still pervasive 😥 sorry this has been your experience.
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Kees AntiFA van Malssen@Xibanya it is bad enough those "women" panels are still needed. It is worse it is not he exception but the rule.
Undead Zeratul@Xibanya even I felt that as a guy who works in tech... I fully believe you have what it takes to give those panels, but it sucks any meaning out of it once it's painted in a reductive gender-based criteria...
The silver lining, I guess, is at least they didn't pick a guy to do those panels instead...
@Undead_Zeratul yeah the problem is that if you get rid of those panels, the other panels won't start featuring more women, women just won't be present at all. ugh
@Xibanya yeah that's not great either. It's unfortunate that the best/only real choice is to do it out of obligation because both of the other options are not even good.
The work you're putting in is appreciated, even if it feels hollow. I've wondered for over a decade (graduated in 2011) why it felt like my industry was heavily biased towards men, and I hope that changes.