459 sats \ 23 replies \ @siggy47 18 Aug 2023 \ on: industry men take themselves so seriously. . .a girl's take on meetups bitcoin
Wow! Your perspective couldn't come at a better time for me personally. I don't want to dwell on your gender exclusively, since your points about the "chosen few" in a group ring true. Please bear with me. I attended my first in person meetup a few weeks ago. I actually wrote about it here. I noticed how few women were in attendance. My 22 year old daughter has some interest in learning about bitcoin, and almost decided to go with me the other night. She decided not to. She has seen a lot of toxicity towards women online, particularly reddit r/bitcoin, and didn't think she would be comfortable. I honestly don't blame her. I had a great time at my second meetup, but there were probably two women in a group of close to 100 people.
I wish things were different.
I don't blame her either. There's so many other things she could do with her time! The ratio of women interested is a difficult thing to talk about because the "what should be done" about it is totally ambiguous and in my view, unproductive. And you very quickly start to draw imaginary lines around genders. But something I may suggest, and I only just realize now that this is what I did, is that she finds a voice that she likes in the bitcoin space, and chooses the meetup where that speaker will be as her first meetup. I think it could mean the difference and be one level more comfortable.
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That's a good idea. I'll show her your post.
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- Bitcoin at first sight is quite technical. Most of womens are not so interested in technical aspects.
- Try to explain them how to spend btc and where yhry can buy shoes with bfc and you get 100% attention. I am not joking or discriminate them. This is mh personal experiencs from last 10 years onboarding people.
- The most brilliant women in bitcoinlandia are quiet and don't want to be / participate in meetups. They are coding/building
- I personally think that if more women will understand bitcoin we will have more adoption. Women are spenders. Men are savers. Think about that.
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most women are not interested in the technical aspects, try to explain how to buy shoes with btc and get 100% attention
gee, i wonder why some women don't feel respected in this space 🙄
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Ok commie
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perfect example! you see a lot of braindead takes around here, like believing women are intellectually equal to men somehow makes you a communist
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You are so right. There is just one thing that I always wondered about.
Why are there separate chess divisions for men and women ?
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jesus fucking christ.
i dunno dude, i guess it must be empirical evidence that men are intellectually superior to women.
or maybe it just means you're an incel ben shapiro wannabe who desperately needs to demean women as a means of justifying to yourself why none of them want anything to do with you.
definitely one of the two.
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there it is lmao you commies always insult the individual because you depend on the state and the state gets resources from all of us, thus- your way of life depends on others agreeing with you- and you turn to insults when there is disagreement or diversity of thought.
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cool
No, believing that women are the same as men really does make you a communist. Which is as accurate as saying a man can become a woman or that we should be focusing in on what a child has between their legs.
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ok incel
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Keep watching msnbc buddy
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You're psyopped by your worldview defined in opposition to the sjw's. Step out of your bubble and realize that most people aren't trying to get offended. You're just making a lot of noise because you feel offended.
I feel like I'm talking to an anti-sjw incel just because you're reacting the exact way they would if they got offended. Maybe you're so offended by us talking about this conversation because your mind is just as polluted as theirs is (just in the opposite direction). Ever think to look in the mirror one time? Just because you believe something to be the case doesn't give you the right to act like a total chode (just like the sjw's that you hate).
It's not 2018 anymore. Even women on college campuses aren't as offended as you are. Grow up.
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Lmao why so angry?
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Ask yourself pal you're the one getting triggered any time someone mentions women on this forum maybe you have an issue to address there
Is it actually controversial to say that women are rather preoccupied with things like shoes and makeup and talking about who is talking to who?
And is it helpful to adoption to not give that sort of information to people who want to know it?
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The caricature writes itself.
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Yeah imagine being a dude with a balanced worldview on Bitcoin social. It feels like I'm on 4chan /b/ talking to a bunch of waifu incels lmao
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This is mh personal experiencs from last 10 years onboarding people.
...but you forgot "the rule no.1":
"Nothing induces a bigger annoyance than the Truth" ;)
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I was being trolled within like 2 posts when I first signed up for reddit, long after it was up and running, the place has never interested me. When I tried it, I discovered that it's one of those "social" websites that gives you no power to filter your feed or ignore people. And honestly, I bump into posts in my searches especially about golang stuff but almost never is really that useful source of information, though I know there is some experts in things there.
If that's something about being "balanced" I call bullshit, that's just straight up social domination and a bunch of pompous jerks dispensing their opinions as though anyone actually gives a fuck. It's a different story when the place is new and the system is still being built but Reddit is far past that and the place is a fucking nest of drones.
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