In the meantime, just consider what it would possibly be like if lesswrong was ran by women, and we were trying to figure out how to bring in more males, and we wondered if we should consider how males liked hunting, and let that inform our decisions. I mean, you’d know we were trying our best, but those of you who don’t really care for hunting would be like “we really have to let them know we aren’t all like that, and we wouldn’t appreciate it as much as they think”.
LOL’d and upvoted. I will be tempted to cite this comment every time I see a discussion anywhere by a bunch of men trying to figure out “how to bring in more women” to some group, without actually asking any women.
This is a pet peeve of mine in IT forums, where guys often have no idea how offensive their special treatment proposals are to precisely the sort of women that they’d want to have participate, and are bemoaning that no women apply for IT jobs, when I managed to run a gender-balanced IT department for over five years without any “affirmative action” hiring. (i.e., it fell naturally out of our choosing to evaluate based on group fit and potential, rather than out of any need to have a gender balance.)
LOL’d and upvoted. I will be tempted to cite this comment every time I see a discussion anywhere by a bunch of men trying to figure out “how to bring in more women” to some group, without actually asking any women.
This is a pet peeve of mine in IT forums, where guys often have no idea how offensive their special treatment proposals are to precisely the sort of women that they’d want to have participate, and are bemoaning that no women apply for IT jobs, when I managed to run a gender-balanced IT department for over five years without any “affirmative action” hiring. (i.e., it fell naturally out of our choosing to evaluate based on group fit and potential, rather than out of any need to have a gender balance.)