The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.

  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Realistically the struggle of the working class requires strong unions and harsh battles. How are you going to build a union when I - a male - see you -a woman (but you can pick any other category) - as something else as myself, as belonging to another group? To me building strong unions requires a mutual recognition of class belonging, and this is what I think helps in a systemic way. Nothing systemic is also going to change if X% more women would be hired by Microsoft/Apple etc., with the difference that if you reach that situation having alienated and fragmented workers, that’s also where you stop.

    Absolutely nothing about taking jobs aimed at women helps or even relates to this.

    What, you recognize a woman as your equal in class struggles so you kick her in the shins and shoves her off the way? Whoa, the class solidarity truly brings tears to may eyes.

    It’s like you are intermittently switching into a whole different discussion. However much you may talk of worker class solidarity and I partially agree, these guys aren’t showing any solidarity.

    And how is this different from any other job?

    Because we are talking about positions indicated to women, who already have a hard enough time getting tech jobs. Who also need them to live. I get what you are saying but here you flipped back to “I need a job, sucks to be them”, not a drop of solidarity to be found. This is different because the whole point of that one fair is being different, if you want to chase jobs for whoever makes it, you can look for them in other places. It’s not like this is the single opportunity anyone will ever get.

    This isn’t difficult to understand. It just seems like you cannot for a moment think of what your life would be like if you were one of said women, rather than one of the men rushing to take the job by any means necessary, anyone around them be damned.

    • sudneo@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Sorry, we are going in circle, and I feel there is no point for me to rehash my thoughts for the N-th time. Either I am no expressing myself well enough, the language barrier is impeding mutual understanding or something else.

      I fundamentally disagree with some of the premises of your arguments (“taking” - like one could choose - jobs aimed at women, etc.). I will close it here.