sexism

Cuttings #1: One year of Musk Twitter Members Public

The return of the daily lunchtime email, but now for paying members only.

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Adam Tinworth
X (Twitter)

Help for Harassers Members Public

Been caught “making women uncomfortable”? Need an excuse apology? Here you go. [https://apologygenerator.com] It really points up how pathetic some of these “apologies” are.

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Adam Tinworth
satire

Scoble: an utterly tone deaf response to harassment allegations Members Public

One way or another, Robert Scoble has featured a fair amount on this blog. A quick search reveals that he’s been mentioned 34 times over the last 10 years. I admired his work bringing a human face to Microsoft, back in the day, and I have many friends that

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Adam Tinworth
harrassment

Why did the Evening Standard focus on an engineer's sex appeal? Members Public

An e-mail from the Ada Lovelace Day folks dropped into my in-box the other day, mentioning that Roma Agrawal [http://www.romatheengineer.com] would be speaking at Ada Lovelace Day Live [http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a4a560af0bd589b6c036469ec&id=fe4608d3cc&e=8c204373a0] . That set a little alarm ringing in

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Adam Tinworth
evening standard

links for 2006-08-01 Members Public

* [The hottest look, no straps attached](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2006/07/31/efstrapless31.xml&sSheet=/fashion/2006/07/31/ixfashion.html) Ah, finally somebody acknowledges the truth – whatever people say, the sexiest part of a woman’s body is her shoulders.(tags:

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Adam Tinworth
sexism

Sexiest Gamer? Members Public

This is quite, quite terrifying. There are competitions running to find the sexiest gamer in the US [http://www.sexiestgamer.com/main_us.php] and UK [http://www.sexiestgamer.com/main_uk.php]. Categories include “personal hygiene closest to society’s norm”, “ability to utter an intelligible word in front

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Adam Tinworth
gaming

Man wins sex discrimination case Members Public

So, the courts have ruled that forcing a man to wear a suit and tie while the women wear t-shirts and football tops is sex discrimination. Quite right, too. What gets me is that everyone seems to be reacting as if he’s trying to win the right to dress

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Adam Tinworth
clothes