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I don't think you're fully appreciative the hardships minorities in certain environments have to endure from the brazen level to the subtle and hard to isolate incidents.



I am willing to bet that there are no special hardships for women who want to enter IT. Quite the opposite really.


True! How exactly does that improve the case for a moral crusade?

I'm disabled in a way that if I told you, you'd probably consider me worthy of your pity. If I considered it relevant - no less fought for all my similarly defective comrades - I'd be a professional victim and in a constant state of argument with the world. No thank you. I get on with it, dealing with issues as and when. If I was discriminated against, you can be damn sure they'd think differently after I was done with them, and I would be livid if some do-gooder had gone on a crusade and taken it upon themselves to have that battle for me. In fact it'd probably have the opposite effect and cause me to leave the situation - I never, ever want anyone to have the preconceived idea that I'm in some way special. I'm different, yes, but I define the relevance of those differences on my terms.




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