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  • AdaEnglish
    12•1 year ago

    The internet should be free from social bias of all sorts, including sex and gender

    It’s not though.

    It wasn’t when that document was written, and it’s not now.

    Hiding our gender doesn’t stop the bias and it doesn’t stop us seeing the bias. All it does is make it less likely to target us specifically, because people are making incorrect assumptions about who we are.

    I nearly always use my name online and I don’t keep my gender a secret. On the few occasions I have been anonymous though, all it has meant is that people assume I’m a man, which again, is not the same thing as “no bias”

    • @jarfil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Adding to that… I was there in the 90s, I used the electron, the switch, and the baud… and the IRC.

      My nick was gender neutral, but from time to time, I heard women comment on how unfriendly the Internet was. One day, out of curiosity, I entered a somewhat popular IRC channel with a fake nick, “natalie” IIRC… and got instantly DDOSed by something like 100+ private chat windows with all sort of “openings” from the male population.

      Yeah, the 90s are not a good model to follow in this regard. On the other hand, if you haven’t got 100+ DMs yet, maybe we’re going in the right direction after all 🤞