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Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech (www.wired.com)
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The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.

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[–] 11 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

I would appreciate more detail on how they determined whether people were lying or not, especially considering there would be no advantage to lying since the article mentions that self-identifying men were permitted to attend the event.

Yeah, that's extra sketchy. Gives me more of the impression that by "female and non-binary" they meant "cis women and some enbys & trans women IF they dress up feminine". In an event that doesn't bar men from entering, why would any guy lie about their gender identity? What's the prize, getting to enter a convention that you could have entered if you didn't lie anwyays? As a trans woman that still presents masculine and has not started any HRT, it wouldn't be the first time someone assumed I was just lying about my identity to... I dunno, score brownie points I guess?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    In an event that doesn’t bar men from entering, why would any guy lie about their gender identity?

    Never underestimate the pettiness of entitled, generally conservative, men. Plenty would do it even just to mock the event or "for the lulz."

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    From another article on this:

    “There were just a lot of men in the comments on anonymous profiles being like, ‘Well Don't hate the player, hate the game,’” Barman said. “Basically proving that they are men, they're not actually non-binary, and that they very much came [to the conference] in an aggressive nature to take space.”

    And according to people on Twitter and TikTok, women were literally being shoved out of place and jumped in front of in lines, and lots of these men had “he/him” on their badges as their pronouns. These were cis men being jerks.

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