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>> "Then see what the community has to say about that presentation."

I suspect most men would just laugh if they saw pictures of penises. But it's Apples and Oranges. Calling the slides in the presentation 'porn' is false advertising. It's some scantily clad women.

A better analogy IMHO would be a women giving a talk, that includes makeup+lingerie in it as metaphors etc. But I don't think most men would feel offended by that.




So agreed that makeup+lingerie (Or Shopping?) for the average female stereotype is equivalent to the average male stereotype of thinking about scantily-clad women.

Now if you went to a industry conference attended by 200 women and yourself and all the analogies were about "Women" stuff. Would you leave the conference thinking that the industry was equally representative and welcoming of males than females?

For me thats the important question, not if it offended you or not.


>> " Would you leave the conference thinking that the industry was equally representative and welcoming of males than females?"

No. I'd recognize that most people were women, and women like 'Women stuff'. :/

You gotta cater to the majority.




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