I've watched this happen. It's real hard to notice when someone is getting ignored via no eye contact https://twitter.com/sadams007/status/902354323044163586 …
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as a short, shy, old “dude” this happens to me too. just sayin
you've asked a question and had the man you were addressing respond to someone else, apparently refusing to look at you?
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Absolutely. It's an Aspergers thing.
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I remain convinced that I am describing a different phenomenon. But, this is the bird website. It's gonna prove tricky to compare experience
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Perhaps we oughtn’t do that here. I hope you will hear me say that there are many significant dimensions of diversity & most aren’t visible
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However I am definitely - alone at conferences (too old, not famous, not cool) - considered suspect as a white guy - token gay, token OG
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Did I mention meeting at Wilson-Sonsini where I said “my partner is parking the car” and the assoc. asked “What do you mean by ‘partner’?"
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Nothing out here is easy. And the tech dude vs. women thing is totally validated. Just saying it’s bigger than that.
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… and women, frankly. Caste system in tech is also about age and internet-famousness. i’ve always been slightly too old & not enough famous
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just saying there are more dimensions to this that affect some of us the same way it affects women
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Ann Winblad literally yanked away someone i was talking to at a Guy Kawasaki event years ago. Never forgotten that moment. Felt like shit.
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