Chemists call for boycott over all-male speaker line up

BlindPelican · 2014-02-18T16:55:00+00:00

Carter says that asking for female speakers after publicizing the all-male list of speakers looked like “tokenism” and that organizers should have solicited advice long before posting the list. “Asking afterward definitely is a subtle message that we ‘need to add some women, let’s just dig around the dregs’,” she says.

How frustrating this is. Even if they made a correction, it's not good enough.

Oh, the parallels that can be drawn...

PeterArching · 2014-02-18T20:01:02+00:00

"If you don't have women speaking in our field, we will make sure we sabotage our own careers by not attending!"

So if we don't capitulate to the screeching harpies, they will go away?

Am I slow? How is this a dilemma?

guywithaccount · 2014-02-19T02:35:25+00:00

Huh. It looks like feminists will give your event or organization free publicity if you troll them effectively.

Title	Chemists call for boycott over all-male speaker line up
Author	zergl1ng
Upvotes	7
Comments	4
Date	February 18, 2014 8:01 AM UTC (12 years ago)
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