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

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

  • SugarApplePie@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Is there any way this can be prevented in the future?

    Unfortunately, I can’t think of any way to add prevention measures that wouldn’t also open the door for some insanely transphobic practices. I think this is one of those things where you have to really rely on good faith behavior from the local community/people signing up for the event

    • Fraylor@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I have never encountered anything in my life that ran on good faith that wasn’t immediately turned into a trainwreck.

      • SugarApplePie@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        I can understand that sentiment. Plenty of things running on good faith have been chugging along just fine, and considering this conference has been happening annually since 2006 without any prior issue like this worth noting, it seems like that’s been doing a pretty good job up until now. Again, not sure what measures could be taken that wouldn’t also be incredibly invasive, transphobic, or a combination of the two.