Women voices still not quite allowed proper chance to speak and be heard within some (most) industries. I appreciate you, kikimon!
Regardless, I'm glad you were there. Hopefully more representation leads to yet more representation.
Well then my apologies. With so many devs on this forum I really need to just start assuming everyone is one or has knowledge of such things.
Maybe my memory is just not good enough to keep the gender information of so many people in my long term memory. Or is it like spider sense?
It's not? Weird, I remember checking "male" when I signed up. I'll have to fix that. So yeah, I'm a dude, and yeah I guess I was mansplaining. Although, it's something I tend to do to lots of people, regardless of gender, and I've been working to be more conscious of it. I've always enjoyed explaining how things work and I think I do it unprompted to reinforce my own understanding of a subject but I'm realizing that it doesn't come off that great to others.
I come across as a bit of a know-it-all irl so I've been trying to explain less things to people but they keep enabling me by not knowing things :O
It's a good discussion. Butt on in.
I learned a while ago from my wife that getting defensive is never a winning move, and not because of some sexist "the wife is always right" kinda bullshit. If I said something shitty that hurt or offended, telling her "You interpreted my words wrong. It's you're fault you feel hurt!" just lead to anger, resentment, and further misunderstanding, especially since she always criticized me about that stuff in good faith. That was a bit of a dark time in our relationship but it was good it happened.
I don't think I'm condescending per se but it can definitely be hard not to feel kinda smug about it.
Thanks. It was uncomfortable. I basically paid money to get harassed for the night. Great
And this is why I stopped playing Magic. Seriously.
No like I worked there
That whole experience was kind of a dumpster fire, but I would do it again.
Honestly, going through all that really helped me learn how to stand up for myself. I never got any help in the harassment department from my coworkers who just watched as it happened, so it forced me to take a stand and tell them to get lost. I was too nice, and too naive in a lot of ways. It was awful at the time, and super uncomfortable, and I still kind of feel grossed out, but now I know how to not let it happen anymore.
Personally I'd be laughing hysterically the whole time.
LMFAO! Me and my crew tbh xDMen posing like women are hilarious.
Source: https://ddriana.deviantart.com/art/Strong-Female-Pose-Dragon-Age-381583613
And so when that man was raping her that was very empowering for her, because by removing her clothing to do it she gained her power back and was brought back to life. So you see this is a very positive and empowering depiction for all the ladies out there about how rape doesn't need to be disempowering for you! Oh please, no thanks needed. Just doing the cosplay of it is enough thanks.
