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		blhack on Aug 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons... No they're not. The cards thing establishes the premise that women are incapable of holding social status. They're not. The cards enforce the very thing they're trying to prevent.

illuminate on Aug 20, 2012 [–]

The cards are a reflection of reality, not an endorsement of the current state of things.

Your tactic of putting your hands over your eyes and ears has been tried, at length in the past. It hasn't ever worked wherever it's been tried.

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