Shame on CoinDesk - This is why women don't use Bitcoin

[dippididodaday]

bitcoin is inclusive in nature, it's for everyone who wants it without interference. Lookin symbolically at the pic it seems to demonstrate exclusion which is not what bitcoin is about.

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[Amph]

i think you are overthinking the situation. this is more like a shitty photographer's fault than Coindest releasing this photo with the purpose of removing the woman out of the photo, and it doesn't look like a photoshopped picture either.

No matter how shitty the photographer is, the editor still has eyes and can see the woman is cut out. 

maybe she wanted to not get with the other? she could have asked for that, if she occupy another position, in comaprison with those other guys, it could make sense

[jacktheking]

Nice catch you got there. When I looked at the picture, I thought there is only men and no women - no offenses to the woman in the picture.

Only found out that there is woman when you mentioned the shoes. Well, I believe this is just a minor mistake and CoinDesk actually wanted to support women to use Bitcoin. I also believe there is a lot of pictures published on CoinDesk site containing women using Bitcoin in a nice way.

Let's not flame CoinDesk and start working on ways to make women more comfortable to use Bitcoin. .

[Boosterious]

BitPesa is an African payment and trading platform and it's obvious that the hosts of this panel made it clear that this fine lady doesn't have any importance for the discussion by placing her on the very bottom of that list. I would like to point out that she is the CEO of BitPesa and this photo is taken from her Twitter. She is very good-looking btw  

OP might right,coindesk should post better picture of this confrence,lets dont make any different between man and women in bitcoin,its better if coindesk take picture from CEO of bitpesa,and yes she was good looking,and perfect women becasue she know and expert about bitcoin

[Fatman3001]

I'm having trouble navigating through this thread as I see a lot of right wing nutters who's not known for caring about the human rights of other than white non-jewish males, but for the record:
 
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Feminism FTW!!!

[tiggytomb]

There will surely be other pictures of the entire panel together?  fair enough they cut her out and if the photo was to represent the entire panel then the full panel should have been included whether that be a man, woman or fish! you can see her name listed on the screen behind them but you can't see the other names.....

[BitcoinPC]

When i was read the thread than i was thinking may be it printed mistake, because you see it is meeting photo, so don't think that it is only one photo, why you think negative? be positive. otherwise you see the next photo it is complete photo, and she is looking very pretty.

[MFahad]

When i was read the thread than i was thinking may be it printed mistake, because you see it is meeting photo, so don't think that it is only one photo, why you think negative? be positive. otherwise you see the next photo it is complete photo, and she is looking very pretty.

Exactly, you are right, in the next photo, it is complete, so don't need to create a issue,, it is just a photo.
i can't understand why he said only woman slipper are here?it is not a planning. may be it is a photograph mistake.
 

[SebastianJu]

I work 62 net hours a week to hear from a woman my work worth nothing because I am a man, and I earn $50-60 at the end of month for that.

Is that really the amount of money you receive for one month of working this amount of work hours? :O

You would be way better with bitcoin signature campaigns on this forum then...

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You would be way better with bitcoin signature campaigns on this forum then...

I refuse to advertise things I do not support or recommend.

Sorry for the off-topic.

[Fatman3001]

Please let's stop with the feminist comments. I'm tired of hearing "Women can do this, women can do that".

I know women can do many things we men can. But crying because you did not appear in a stupid photo is too much for me.

Try to work in silence, we have been condemned to brutal work for ages and we're not talking about it.

I work 62 net hours a week to hear from a woman my work worth nothing because I am a man, and I earn $50-60 at the end of month for that.

They want to be treated equal, but not when it comes to fight and workload.

Sometimes, I feel like I should take my hands and start beating them at the street randomly.

 

Hmmmm... judging from your reasoning here you might have to consider that she might be right.

[aerobatic]

This is a photograph published by CoinDesk today:


In this panel, the entire worth and contribution from the only women - is represented by her shoes.  While they are nice shoes, they clearly cut the only female out of the story and quite disrespectfully left a mere tiny slice of her representation.  

Shameful.  It is no wonder women don't feel welcome in this group.

you're being sensationalist here!   there were women represented at the conference -  (i was there, and saw they were well represented).  there were several talks with women on the panel.  One talk even had Majority women on the panel and the moderator actually called it out as a good conference for diversity.

its a fact of life in tech that women are under represented, but you're reading too much into that particular slide, as there were plenty of talks with women represented, and actually, i felt there we were going in the right direction as there were significantly more women at the conference this year than last year.

could coindesk have picked a better photo (or cropped this one better)?  probably.   but your point is unfounded and you're off base.

-- Jez

[Slark]

First of all, you don't judge situation and base your conclusion of 1 picture! This is just showing how ignorant and happy trigger we all are with our judgement.
Secondly men are more prominent in bitcoin world - that is a fact, it is not that women can't be part of it, they are just not as interested from what I could tell.
I talked to many women and men about bitcoin - and I can tell that in general women are more ignorant and reluctant to hear about it.

[SebastianJu]

First of all, you don't judge situation and base your conclusion of 1 picture! This is just showing how ignorant and happy trigger we all are with our judgement.
Secondly men are more prominent in bitcoin world - that is a fact, it is not that women can't be part of it, they are just not as interested from what I could tell.
I talked to many women and men about bitcoin - and I can tell that in general women are more ignorant and reluctant to hear about it.

I did not experience the same thing though there are less woman in the space that are interested in it or are big in the scene. I think the reason simply is the way bitcoin came to live. A dry topic... mathematics... and what's the men-women-ratio in that areas? The big heads in there are mostly men too.

So I think it is plain stupid to demand equality where one should judge from knowledge and experience only. If a woman did not sit there even if she would have been better suited there than one of the mens then fine. That would be unequalitity. But taking taking in persons, regardless of some outer appearence, that are less experienced... why? To make it more colorful?

Imagine having a brain tumor and you want to have the best treatment. Though you get a way less capable doctor to do the task than you would have gotten. Simply because that doctor has some meaningless different appearence.

[streazight]

I can tell that photo has been shopped.  Lol.  Cropped.    Why did they cut her out of there?

The photo is just crapped. No offend for woman, Woman are respected and they love bitcoins also

[Jasad]

i don't think this is a serious problem,they put only "female shoe" on their photo,and you said coindesk make women dont want use bitcoin becasue his,its too serious. i think Elizabeth Rossiello as SEO of BitPesa put on last list because bitpesa is the smalest company.

[aso118]

This might be a reason why women don't visit coindesk!
No reason for women to not use bitcoin.

[yayayo]

That woman looks hot!

I don't see why good-looking women should not use and contribute to Bitcoin as well. Personally I have no problem if they wear nice shoes, preferably high heels... A women being a possible mating target, does not exclude that she is also intelligent. I never understood this feminist dogma (maybe the simple reason is that most feminists look below average).

Women interested in bitcoin will use Bitcoin. They need no invitation or special treatment to do that.

ya.ya.yo!

[steeev]

arf!

what a load of blather and drivel.

trying to inject social engineering into Bitcoin - 'OH NOES, SEXIST AND THAT!!!'

and then the 'no offence' brigade start grovelling on here - dunno which is more pathetic...

[Slowturtleinc]

So does Raw Dog suffer from white knight syndrome?
Odd how many people where pulled to this type of reasoning,thought we had some sharper tools in our forum.