| T-shirt with a programming joke is the easy answer. I go to tech events and I never ever see anyone dressed in t-shirts with programming jokes on them (1). It's mostly the same ole sloppy t-shirt with jeans or chinos. So no, I am not going to wear the dorky scarlet letter all by my lonesome, thank you very much. An outfit tells you what someone's into, not how good they are at it. You mean, like, someone in a sloppy t-shirt and jeans is into complete and utter conformity? At a typical tech event, most of the black people you meet are programmers. Most of the women you meet aren't. Oh please. Most black people you see at a typical tech event are security and catering. As for the 2nd part of your statement, holy guacamole confirmation bias! (1) For science, I just googled images for pycon, disrupt nyc, def con and finally just "hackathon" and nope, not a single programming joke t-shirt in sight. So your "easy answer" is anything but - you are asking women, and women only, to jump through extra hoops in order to get a seat at the proverbial table. Talk about a privileged, entitled stance. |