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Periods are relevant to a "small handful" of women? Have you discussed your thinking with any women? Is it a "pretty grotesque" sense of entitlement at work wh

Periods are relevant to a "small handful" of women? Have you discussed your thinking with any women? Is it a "pretty grotesque" sense of entitlement at work when a man looks for a urinal in a public building? Or when a disabled person looks for the wheelchair ramp? These things have half utility at best by your "obvious metric". Take this further: imagine architecture firms were staffed mostly (80%+) by women. They keep getting complaints because their doorways are only 5'11" high (ideal for 99% of women's bodies), they don't provide urinals and so on. Is it a wild assumption that having more men – or, god, "experts in catering to men (who might be men but also women)" - on their teams would help address these repeated own goals? Or do we need to spend years getting the data that shows us the real, mysterious, non-political underlying cause of this gender bias in buildings?

cutemonster 5y ago
It seems to me that buildings and medicine and cars and gym equipment and everything, need to be usability tested on all groups of people: short, tall, men, women, black, white, thin, fat, old, young, wheelchair, blind, deaf. But I don't think all those groups of people need to take part in the construction work. It'd be nice with more diversity in tech. So please don't misunderstand. I just think that there are other better examples of how diversity is good. (Usability testing: Testing early prototypes I suppose -- it's not that easy to redo, say, a car, once it's in production.) > keep getting complaints because their doorways are only 5'11" high (ideal for 99% of women's bodies), That thought makes me feel upset! (Although I'm not a human. But I am tall) Thanks for a good example
thu2111 5y ago
I feel like you're deliberately mis-interpreting me. It's a small number of women who kick up a big fuss on Twitter about the choices of Apple's PM team.

cutemonster 5y ago

It seems to me that buildings and medicine and cars and gym equipment and everything, need to be usability tested on all groups of people: short, tall, men, women, black, white, thin, fat, old, young, wheelchair, blind, deaf. But I don't think all those groups of people need to take part in the construction work. It'd be nice with more diversity in tech. So please don't misunderstand. I just think that there are other better examples of how diversity is good. (Usability testing: Testing early prototypes I suppose -- it's not that easy to redo, say, a car, once it's in production.) > keep getting complaints because their doorways are only 5'11" high (ideal for 99% of women's bodies), That thought makes me feel upset! (Although I'm not a human. But I am tall) Thanks for a good example

thu2111 5y ago

I feel like you're deliberately mis-interpreting me. It's a small number of women who kick up a big fuss on Twitter about the choices of Apple's PM team.