Live and Learn, Feminists, let us men know when you've fixed your problem.
Posted on 11/26/2023 2:34:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
A tech conference dedicated to helping women climb the tech career ladder has derailed into chaos after it was ‘overrun’ by men.
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is held in Orlando, Florida every year and is among the most lucrative job finding conventions for young women in tech.
But this year’s summit was flooded by men supposedly claiming to be non-binary.
Firms including Amazon, Apple and Google were in attendance at the event – but it’s feared the event’s choice to allow non-binary people to attend led men to take advantage of the system.
Attendees shared videos on TikTok and other social media platforms criticising the men who attended the event, with some suggesting they pushed into queues and shoved other guests.
This was acknowledged by Cullen White, the Chief Impact Officer of AnitaB.org, which hosts the conference, who said in his closing speech: ‘Simply put, some of you lied about your gender identity when you registered – as evidenced by the stacks and stacks of resumes you’re passing out.
‘You did so because you thought you could come here and take space to get a job.
‘This is supposed to be a joyous event that centers around you. Yesterday, it became clear that there are a far greater number of cisgender men attending.
‘We need male allies, we need men who want to celebrate women, want to work with and for women.
‘Unfortunately some of you took discounted academic tickets from women who need them, some of you are taking interview slots right now… from women who need them.
‘Some of you are stood in line talking to recruiters instead of letting women speak. All of those are limited resources to which you have no right.
‘So let me be perfectly clear: stop right now. Stop.’
Mamantha J, an attendee who condemned the event on LinkedIn, said she was ‘really looking forward’ to the forum before realizing it was not what she expected.
She said: ‘As a woman who has experienced patriarchic dominance in the tech industry, I hoped the convention would provide a fair chance for me to connect with potential employers.’
Alongside complaints about long lines and exhausted recruiters, she said she witnessed ‘a significant number of cis men allies taking opportunities meant for women and non-binary, a concerning trend that seemed unaddressed by the event organisers.’
‘It saddens me the see all those cis men attending #GHC23 and misrepresenting their gender,’ added Anchal Katyalm, a software development manager at Amazon who also hit out at the gatecrashers on Linkedin.
‘We need male allies. We need men who want to celebrate women, who want to work with, and for women,’ she added.
‘For all the women & nonbinary people attending, hold your ground & believe in yourself.’
Another frustrated female jobseeker said on TikTok that she was in line to network with a recruiter when several men cut in front of her in the queue.
Women in Tech conference hijacked by men claiming to be non-binary - Grace Hopper Celebration There have been a number of complaints from attendees (Picture: X/@ayesha_nabiha) Another participant, Lauren Shaefer, said she was a big fan of the conference ever since she landed an internship there in 2007, until this year where her love of the event was dashed.
She said: ‘I once again travelled to the celebration to give a talk, but I didn’t leave feeling refreshed and energized.
‘The opening and closing talks from the main stage were excellent, but everything in between felt disheartening.’
She added that she even spoke with a security guard who ‘said they kicked out men who were pushing and shoving’, adding that ‘the career fair was overrun with men’.
An insult only works if the target accepts it as such.
Women would be suing to gain entry, etc.
While on the one hand I reject nonbinary anything, I am ruefully enjoying the women’s discomfort, on the other hand.
Because they sure can dish it but definitely can’t take it.
It’s what the abnormal people call the normal people.
Cisgender, for some reason, means you were the sex you were born, in accordance with your chromosomes. So, if you were born a man, and still say your a man, you are cisgender.
Everybody knows a man wearing a dress is just as sane as you and I.
nonsense.
There is only the NORMAL and the mentally ill.
The sooner we can do away with sex-based, race-based, and other obvious signs of bias and bigotry, the sooner we can get to merit. The bias and bigotry of the Democrats, in on their behalf, the government is simply unreal.
Live and Learn, Feminists, let us men know when you've fixed your problem.
Affirmative action for women conference infiltrated by trannys lol
Libtard companies like Amazon and google created this crap show
Wouldja lookit that. That ol’ sword got two cutting idges on it.
Women MUST be humiliated by men until they learn to stand up and fight like mmm...feminists they claim to be.
Men, step back and eat popcorn. This is her fight, and she will cry and lose. Then we step in and right this screwed up listing 100 year ship mishap.
This is what happens when “women’s rights” organizations decide to just be Leftist shills, and back all of the trans BS, while pretending to be actual women’s rights advocates.
Lol! I observed your actions thereof!
LOLOL... muscle strength is non-determinate, so what’s their problem???
This is the part where we throw our heads back in laughter.
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“ ‘So let me be perfectly clear: stop right now. Stop.”
Did she stomp her little feet?
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Mostly Oracle PL/SQL and Java.
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