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Protip: Form an all-female software company. Gender-discriminatory hiring practices don't apply to small companies.

See Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e and following). Title VII applies to employers that fit into the following categories: private employers with at least 15 employees.

14 Women can get together and not hire any men if they want. They can make software for women and get rich and support their families if they want.

They don't need men. They can make this completely public, legally. 14 people not big enough? Form a second 14-woman company and subcontract out to them.




Reverse discrimination isn't much of an answer. It's just a temporary hack that doesn't fix the real problem.


Yes, and plastic doesn't conduct electricity well, so why keep trying to force electricity through it?

The problem as stated was "How can I make everyone in my game studio behave the way I want?" That is like sending electricity through plastic.

The real problem is: "How can I earn a living to feed my family doing what I love to do in a safe environment?"

My answer is the answer to the real problem. If you think you can keep sending electricity through plastic and make it work, it's worse than my "temporary hack" which is only "temporary" as long as the Constitution is in effect.

My answer brings new information to the table which most people don't know. I'm sick of these threads coming up over and over again and I've offered a fresh formulation with new ideas that people can start to use right away.


A conductor whose properties don't change is a bad analogy to the human psych, which can change for better or worse depending on the environment.

> The problem as stated was "How can I make everyone in my game studio behave the way I want?" That is like sending electricity through plastic.

No it isn't. You can influence it or change it through culture and rules. We're not static machines.


Great. If you truly believe that human thought and behavior can be changed, go ahead and change your own.

Stop getting offended by trivial things.

You're the problem, so stop being a problem.


I'm confused. Did you respond to the right post? Where did I post in this thread that I was offended by something?


You're trying to police ideas and behaviors that offend you.

You don't have the right to do that. That's unacceptable.

Police your own, instead.


> You're trying to police ideas and behaviors that offend you.

Again where in this specific thread did you read that? In this thread, I'm questioning the long term logic of someone else's idea of what you would call "policing".

Have you read your own comments on this thread? I find it ironic that you're essentially doing the same thing that you accuse me of doing.




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