I’m infuriated by the idea that female visibility in tech can be fixed with some bandaid Hall of Fame.
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Women tech writers and tech-thinkers are regularly excluded from stupid listicles, women coders are erased, diminished, never mentioned.
And honestly, this isn’t just a sexism problem, the vision of a “hacker" as a young single man has hurt tech in many ways.
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It has led to an inefficient/unbalanced expectation of working hours. It has led job insecurity for older coders.
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Maybe the weirdest effect has been the stereotype that echoes through the CFAA: hackers are young, mischievous men who need to be controlled
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Isn’t that a weird one to think about? That we might have less stupid laws if we didn’t accept the male-dominated stereotype of hackers?
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Would “anti-hacking statute” have the same connotation if “coding” was just as likely to conjure up a picture of a woman?
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I know that seems like a weird contention. But I’m thinking abt a bunch of badly decided cybercrime cases w/ a male “perp” and a female vic.
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What if cyber law was not just about protecting women and children from nasty male hackers?
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(What if when we wrote laws, we took into account a coder's freedom to tinker, and when we thought “coder,” we thought about women and men?)
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@sarahjeong Young man is ideally an idiot savant w/o political/humanistic concerns. This is bad for society, the hacker, good 4 tech bosses.Merci. Twitter en tiendra compte pour améliorer votre fil. SupprimerSupprimer
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@sarahjeong I never thought about it that way. You're right.Merci. Twitter en tiendra compte pour améliorer votre fil. SupprimerSupprimer
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