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The Asshole Filter, by [personal profile] siderea, via [personal profile] liv. This was written 9 years ago, and still rings very true. "An asshole filter happens when you publicly promulgate a straitened contact boundary and then don't enforce it; or worse, reward the people who transgress it."

Also from [personal profile] liv, in comments, When “Life Hacking” Is Really White Privilege by Jen Dziura.
Just add “if you’re white” or “because I’m white” to each generalization or anecdote in the article.

For instance:
“I find when you act confused but polite then people want to help if you’re white. There was a line behind me. I wasn’t fighting or angry. So there was no reason for anyone to get angry at me, because I’m white.”


The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman by Irene Zhang.
Kate defines misogyny as the enforcement branch of the patriarchy. While sexism is a set of beliefs, misogyny is a set of actions. As such, it is much more damaging to women. Worse, misogyny enforces a patriarchical worldview that the majority of the world holds as the morally correct one.


Integrity, not reliability by Mel Chua, via Sumana Harihareswara, [personal profile] brainwane, in remembrance after Mel's death.
In engineering (especially with software system), we work with subsystems and components that are inherently unreliable. We have ways to hook them together to make the system as a whole okay, even with the component-level unreliability. Backups, notifications, and so forth. How can I be part of a larger system that’s reliable, even if components of myself are unpredictable?

Date: 2024-08-20 11:11 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gingicat
Confused and polite works astonishingly well when you're white and female, to the point where you can weaponize it for others. Stereotypes suck.

Date: 2024-08-21 12:22 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gingicat
Yeah, as a red haired pink-cheeked Jewish person, I pass for WASP more often.

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