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A Practical Way to Fight Sexism in Tech Today (Literally, Today)

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"...attracting people who aren’t white males (which I am)."

which I am not. Stops reading. I guess I'm just not the intended audience...

That's a shame, because I address that idea in, literally, the next line.

Actually, no it doesn't. There are plenty of non-white people in the tech industry and your article makes it sound otherwise.

I had no intention of inferring that, as I often make that point myself. The sentence you first referred to stated:

"But, all that aside, we’re still in the middle of a long, long discussion in our industry about attracting people who aren’t white males (which I am)."

...which is an observation of a discussion, not a statement about demographics, and that discussion is happening whether it's actually relevant or not.

I don't see any discussion about attracting people who aren't white people when > 50% of people in my office aren't white. Citation would be good.

We're devolving here.

Note that my post was specifically regarding GoDaddy fostering sexism (intentionally or not), but that many of the discussions _also_ involve being diverse in other areas. For instance, the very first link in my article is to one called "The Problem with a Slate of White, Male Speakers". So, please, find that discussion elsewhere as it's happening—but, I had nothing to say on ethnicity other than pointing out my own for clarity's sake and stating that it shouldn't matter.

Is Bob Parsons (the elephant hunting guy) still CEO of GoDaddy, like OP's link suggests?

The guy's homepage says he's "only" executive chairman ([1]) but Wikipedia says he stepped down as CEO in 2011, citing this interview [2].

[1] http://www.bobparsons.me/index.php

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/bob-parsons.html...

I believe it occurred while he was CEO, but I'm happy to update that language to be more correct. I don't want that to be any sort of focus of this writing.

Thank you! Another way to contribute: tweet #notbuyingit at sexist companies advertising during the Super Bowl.

http://www.missrepresentation.org/media/nbi/notbuyingit-list...

Weren't us tech-savvies already supposed to be boycotting godaddy because of their support for SOPA?

Perhaps, but the point here was to encourage us to discuss things with the non-'tech-savvies'.

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