Speakers on conferences telling that they need more woman is IMHO offending. Would be for me if they asked for more "Germans". #oredev
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@vogella Offending to whom? To you? How could it possibly be?
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@stilkov I think by explicitly marking a group as special you exclude them more.
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@vogella So you feel offended for women by proxy? Feels kind of weird to me. I humbly suggest to leave that choice to them.
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@stilkov It feels to me that you suggesting that I should have no opinion on this topic. I humbly reject that request.
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Replying to @vogella
@vogella No, I agree you should have an opinion. In fact I shared yours, but changed it recently after spending some time with the topic

Nov 9, 2012 · 9:17 AM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
@stilkov that's the nice thing about opinions, they change over time.