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Going To The Hairdresser
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Planning a Vacation
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Deconstructing
Privilege
@pati_gallardo Patricia Aas
C++ on Sea 2019
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Patricia Aas - Consultant
C++ Programmer, Application Security
Currently : TurtleSec
Helped form the organization: #include<C++>
Previously : Vivaldi, Cisco Systems, Knowit, Opera Software
Master in Computer Science
Pronouns: she/her
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The Four Stages of
Competence
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@pati_gallardo
IntegratedInformedLearning
Unconscious
Competence
Conscious
Competence
Conscious
Incompetence
Wrong
Analysis
Right Intuition
Right
Analysis
The Four Stages of Competence
Unconscious
Incompetence
Ignorant
Wrong
Intuition
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“That’s rude!”
Definitely
offensive
Maybe
offensive?
Unconscious
Competence
Conscious
Competence
Conscious
Incompetence
Wrong
Analysis
Right Intuition
Right
Analysis
Swearing in a Foreign Language
Unconscious
Incompetence
Fun!
Wrong
Intuition
8
@pati_gallardo
“Your privilege
is showing”
Privilege is
real
Privilege
might be real
Unconscious
Competence
Conscious
Competence
Conscious
Incompetence
Wrong
Analysis
Right Intuition
Right
Analysis
Becoming Conscious of Privilege
Unconscious
Incompetence
Privilege is a
myth!
Wrong
Intuition
I don’t believe this is a problem
because I don’t experience it!9
Conscious Incompetence
Results in Listening
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@pati_gallardo
But let’s start from the beginning…
So What Is Privilege?
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Most people have experienced hardship@pati_gallardo
Privilege is Being
Spared a Hardship
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@pati_gallardo
Do you worry about which pronoun
you use for your partner?
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@pati_gallardo
Has anyone at work ever asked you
how you have sex with your partner?
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@pati_gallardo
Has anyone at
work ever
commented on
your weight?
17
@pati_gallardo
Has anyone at work ever asked you
what your genitalia looks like?
18
@pati_gallardo
Has anyone ever shushed you in a
meeting?
19
@pati_gallardo
Are you expected to always be meek
and accommodating?
20
Are certain jobs unavailable to you
because of language/accent?
21
@pati_gallardo
Do people ridicule you as a
parent because of your
gender?
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@pati_gallardo
Do you get time off for your religious
holidays?
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Do people refuse to use your name?
And instead uses painful a name?24
Have you ever worried about whether
you can attend an event?
25
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Has anyone asked you if you belonged
at an event?
26
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Have you ever had your visa
denied?@pati_gallardo
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Do you trust Police
and Authorities?
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- Sexual Orientation
- Gender Identity
- Gender
- Racial / Ethnic
- Ability
- Neurotypical
- Age
Examples of
Privilege
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- Language
- Citizenship
- Religion
- Socio-Economic
Background
- Class / Accent
- Education
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Examples of
Privilege
Passing Privilege
How arbitrary is privilege?
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Height
Privilege
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Born in January
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Where Were You
Born?
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Privilege is Being
Spared a Hardship
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Problematic
Communication
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Patterns in Problematic
Communication
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- Competitive Communication Style
- Downplaying Issues and Concerns
- Interpreting POC (and Women) as Angry
- Not Trusting Women's Experiences and Expertise
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Patterns in Problematic Communication
https://twitter.com/ErynnBrook/status/1001881209733988352
Examples of Problematic
Communication
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(These are rarely done accidentally or in good faith)
(They are often paired with a refusal to back off)
Sealioning
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@malki
Wondermark
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“Sea lioning [...] is a type of trolling or harassment
which consists of pursuing people with persistent
requests for evidence or repeated questions.
The harasser who uses this tactic also uses fake civility
so as to discredit their target.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_lioning
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Mansplaining
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“The technical definition of mansplaining is when a man
explains something to a woman that she already
knows, often in a condescending tone.”
Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/06/is-th
e-term-mansplaining-sexist-google-autocomplete
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When in pain
Most people swear
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Tone Policing
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“Drawing attention to the tone rather than content
of a statement can allow other parties to avoid engaging
with sound arguments presented in that statement, thus
undermining the original party's attempt to
communicate and effectively shutting them down.”
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Tone_argument
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47
Not All Men
An example of tone policing
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What Can You Do?
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@pati_gallardo
“Your privilege
is showing”
Privilege is
real
Privilege
might be real
Unconscious
Competence
Conscious
Competence
Conscious
Incompetence
Wrong
Analysis
Right Intuition
Right
Analysis
Becoming Conscious of Privilege
Unconscious
Incompetence
Privilege is a
myth!
Wrong
Intuition
I don’t believe this is a problem
because I don’t experience it!50
@pati_gallardo
“Your privilege
is showing”
Privilege is
real
Privilege
might be real
Unconscious
Competence
Conscious
Competence
Conscious
Incompetence
Wrong
Analysis
Right Intuition
Right
Analysis
Becoming Conscious of Privilege
Unconscious
Incompetence
Privilege is a
myth!
Wrong
Intuition
I believe this is a problem
But I don’t Understand it
Listening & Educating Yourself
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Become aware that situations
that you experience as
uneventful can be hostile or
even dangerous to others.
For no other reason than for
example their gender, gender
identity, sexuality, skin color or
physical/psychological
disability.
@pati_gallardo
- Use google - read and watch
videos
- Follow people on Twitter
Do not ask minorities to explain or
justify. Read what they write without
expecting them to teach you.@pati_gallardo
How?
Educate yourself
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Lending Privilege (google it!)
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Use Your Privilege to Lift
Others Up
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- Partner with them
- React when they are ignored
- Call out your peers on their
prejudice
- Sponsoring them by supporting
their careers
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What Is the Impact of
Privilege?
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It is natural to want to take credit for one's
own success - we often don’t want to admit
to ourselves that we have gotten help
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Keynote: Deconstructing Privilege (C++ on Sea 2019)
Intersectionality
Privilege multiplies,
so does lack of it
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Privilege is Being
Spared a Hardship
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Situations that you
experience as uneventful
can be hostile
or even dangerous to others
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It doesn’t mean your life was
easy, it just means you
didn’t get this additional
burden
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Becoming aware of our
privileges opens us up to
listening & learning
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This Talk has a
Very Western Point of View
Please Reach Out With Other
Perspectives
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- Junior / Senior
- Self Taught / CS Degree
- Learning / Teaching
- Feminine / Masculine
- People of Color / White Folks
- Women, Other Genders / Men
- Disabled / Abled@pati_gallardo
Power Dynamics in Pair
Programming: @sarahmei
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The Power of Agile: https://youtu.be/YL-6RCTywbc
Computerized
Inequality
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Returning from
Parental Leave
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Mental Health
Consequences of
being Marginalized
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Healthcare for
Women, especially
Women of Color
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