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Apparently one director had groped so many women that his suite was known as the "Cosby Suite". As spoken by one of the victims [0].

[0]https://twitter.com/skrutsick/status/1418006293495762944?s=2...




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That may be true, bit we're talking about women, who are emphatically not a minority :)


That is technically true overall, but when it comes to software development and especially gaming they are very much in the minority. So much so that at most gaming companies of 50-100 folks you can count the women working there (outside of the art department) on one hand.


Agreed, though publishing arms tend to reverse that as they are mainly (historically at least) marketing focused, which means more women.

Nonetheless, women have historically been a majority of humans.


You get that isn’t what the word means in this context, right? It’s about power, not numbers.


I don't disagree that women are treated badly in a lot of situations, but unless we want to define away the word majority like we did literally, then women are not a minority.


Absence of one gender in a certain industry is not sufficient evidence for discrimination.


Prejudice is at the core of being bigoted and you are not making a great case. Instead, you judge on objections.

I don't think this to be true and think accusation of sexism/racism in tech are extremely disproportional.




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