[2015-04-23] Fusion: Why Bitcoin’s male domination will be its downfall

[pattu1]

Why Bitcoin’s male domination will be its downfall

http://fusion.net/story/124655/why-bitcoins-male-domination-will-be-its-downfall/

If you are a woman involved with Bitcoin, you are invariably going to get treated like an outsider. As Victoria Turk says, “it seems that the only Bitcoin community that particularly welcomes female participation is the NSFW subreddit r/GirlsGoneBitcoin”, which is basically a site where women get paid in cryptocurrency to pose nude.

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[pedrog]

Male domination didn't stop Linux, or the Internet, or every other technology, and it will not stop bitcoin.

[Kprawn]

That is total Bullshit. 

I have attended several Bitcoin meetups, where females were treated as equels.. They were not dancing naked on tables. Several of my female friends are into Bitcoin and none of them, had to fill in some gender document to open a wallet at any service provider.

Bitcoin makes no distinction between race or gender... it's just a currency being used by millions of people.

If you look at ANY of my previous posts, where I refer to Satoshi... I include the following ... Him/her or it. For what we know, Satoshi might even be a women. 

Felix can now go tell his wife, he obeyed her orders and wrote feminist FUD on Bitcoin. 

[Brooker]

Male domination didn't stop Linux, or the Internet, or every other technology, and it will not stop bitcoin.

This is exactly what I was going to say. You could put many sports like football with that as well. I think most women will likely just be treated equally in the bitcoinsphere as gender is irrelevant but of course there are fewer women involved as there are with most new technology. More and more will get involved as time goes on as well.

[Skeksis]

And what does he suggest we do about this exactly? Force women to get involved? It's not men's fault that women aren't getting on board but there are more than you might think but this will change over time but all we can do is keep spreading the word to everyone regardless of gender.

[1Referee]

And another story full of shit. Some people can better keep their mouth shut instead of talking nonsense. To me every one is equal, doesn't matter if that person is a male or female Bitcoiner.

Bitcoin will only fail if there is no demand for it in the future, or quantum computers that will find a way to crack it. But that's very far away, if it's ever going to happen.

[pawel7777]

And what does he suggest we do about this exactly? Force women to get involved? It's not men's fault that women aren't getting on board but there are more than you might think but this will change over time but all we can do is keep spreading the word to everyone regardless of gender.

Simple solution. We need to start referring to Satoshi as 'she', but first we'd need to fabricate "solid" evidence that she was a female.

Result: every single news, from tech/business press to color magazines will pick the story up. Feminists will absolutely love it and claim it was the greatest invention in modern history (invented by a woman!) and any Bitcoin critique will be taken as misogynist attack.

[TraderTimm]

Yet-another-attempt-to-paint-STEM-fields-as-women-excluding, even though there is plenty of proof otherwise. Makes me wonder when they'll run out of things to complain about. Nobody keeps women from participating in Bitcoin, any imagined exclusion is in the mind of the author.

But, it has become fashionable lately to pull the victim card and write another "woe is women" piece on something involving technology. The door is open, anyone can walk through it.

[LiteCoinGuy]

Male domination didn't stop Linux, or the Internet, or every other technology, and it will not stop bitcoin.

LIAR  !

[Kaneki]

I think why men dominate, because bitcoin is not widely known among women, maybe need to be cooperation with groups or institutions woman to introduce bitcoin.

[Chef Ramsay]

I think why men dominate, because bitcoin is not widely known among women, maybe need to be cooperation with groups or institutions woman to introduce bitcoin.

Perhaps, these early startups are targeting certain products that can help them expand to others in the future and these early products typically bring in more males. Furthermore, most investment types tend to be men.

[pattu1]

And you have counters.

http://fortune.com/2015/04/24/women-in-bitcoin/
http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/bloggers-belittle-womens-achievements-in-bitcoin-1074018-1.html

[bornil267645]

That's totally wrong, male domination is the power source behind everything. And women are the helping hand. Neither can live without each other cooperation. So it's wrong to say male domination is destroying BTC.

[bryant.coleman]

Radical feminists can GTFO to somewhere else. Bitcoin doesn't discriminate against anyone, and therefore there is no need for any special affirmative action quotas for females. And at least 10% of the Bitcoin users right now are females. That is not a small amount. For example, 0% of the American Presidents were female. 

[Lethn]

Why have the misandrists suddenly turned their attention to the Bitcoin community? I bet you we're going to see them try and swarm the forums with their bullshit soon enough, unfortunately for them I've been ready to pick a fight lately because of the UK elections.

[cr1776]

Does that mean that the "Bitcoin CEO" has to stop asking to see IDs before letting people get involved in bitcoin?  Or is this another case when China is going to ban bitcoin because there are not enough women "allowed" in?

[darkangel11]

If you want more women in Bitcoin then invite them here!
Feminism is a joke that ends in tears when you have to carry a washing machine into the house or a car breaks down. That's all there is to it.

[EternalWingsofGod]

Male domination didn't stop Linux, or the Internet, or every other technology, and it will not stop bitcoin.

Indeed adoption is a stepping stone, it just happens to relate to the fact there are fewer female computer programmers than males and in general the tech level is still fairly high, once people including females are more comfortable with the technology users will follow.

[the joint]

I think people here on these forums overestimate the importance of technical superiority.  TiVo was way ahead of its time and it failed miserably due to poor marketing.  Social opinion matters.  If you think Bitcoin will/is succeed(ing) just because it's technically superior to fiat, I would challenge you on that.  The primary reason Bitcoin has lived and grown to this point is *not* because it's superior, but because it's born of an ideology that some people very strongly identify with.  Unless that ideology is expanded so that it resonates more with others (women included), it will always occupy only a small niche.

There are >1,000 alts by now.  Most of these suit the technical requirements of most BTC users.  None of them are even close to BTC because they all resonate with the same population.

At this point, it's still not even a male vs. female problem.  It's still a tech-nerd-&-libertarian vs. everyone else problem.

I don't even go across the corner to another gas station if gas is 1%-2% cheaper there.  Don't expect people to flock to BTC in large numbers because of its technical advantages.

[TraderTimm]

I think people here on these forums overestimate the importance of technical superiority.  TiVo was way ahead of its time and it failed miserably due to poor marketing.  Social opinion matters.  If you think Bitcoin will/is succeed(ing) just because it's technically superior to fiat, I would challenge you on that.  The primary reason Bitcoin has lived and grown to this point is *not* because it's superior, but because it's born of an ideology that some people very strongly identify with.  Unless that ideology is expanded so that it resonates more with others (women included), it will always occupy only a small niche.

There are >1,000 alts by now.  Most of these suit the technical requirements of most BTC users.  None of them are even close to BTC because they all resonate with the same population.

At this point, it's still not even a male vs. female problem.  It's still a tech-nerd-&-libertarian vs. everyone else problem.

I don't even go across the corner to another gas station if gas is 1%-2% cheaper there.  Don't expect people to flock to BTC in large numbers because of its technical advantages.

Yet another Betamax-vs-VHS trope.

Yeah, we know that technical superiority isn't everything, but the very fact this "experiment" is still thriving to the dismay of large banking institutions and governments that would like to see it dead - I'd call that an achievement.

You'd also know that the gradual acceptance and saturation of a given invention takes longer than the short lifespan that Bitcoin has had. That is, if you were interested in comparing it in a fair manner outside your own personal bias.