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

[RawDog]

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. 

[avikz]

This is a cropped photo and the thread owner is trying to make sexist comments. Not welcome at all!!

Who said women don't use bitcoin? There are many but not necessarily we all need to know that.

keep calm and accumulate Bitcoin for your future. You don't need to be expert in everything.

[nanonymousx]

This is a cropped photo and the thread owner is trying to make sexist comments. Not welcome at all!!

Who said women don't use bitcoin? There are many but not necessarily we all need to know that.

keep calm and accumulate Bitcoin for your future. You don't need to be expert in everything.

Agree, the  OP may has his/her own agenda, way to much fuss about nothing.
As a matter of fact, there are other photoes, many photoes out there, why pick this one?

[SebastianJu]

Why to assume that this can't be an error? CoinDesk is not the highly professional newspaper others are.

Who is that girl at all? Maybe only a moderator? Then it would not be needed to put her in the list of important bitcoin persons...

[Slowturtleinc]

I sense looking for a problem where there be no problem. If women are not interested they are not interested,no need to balance the playing field when any one can grab bitcoin and women decided it was not for them. This need to make bitcoin a representation of society is a fools game and not something we should be encouraging unless you are wanting to go down the P.C route.

[spendabit]

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. 

Definitely a poor choice in photo composition. I wouldn't be surprised if she was disappointed to see that photo was chosen. Bizarre as she is probably the one on the panel readers would most prefer to see.

One could argue, however, that she is more than adequately represented by her enormous name and company name on the wall while 4 of the others are missing in that respect.

[Almagro]

Where you went wrong in your logic is that is was actually her Shoes that were asked to be on the panel. The woman, was simply there to facilitate getting the Shoes there in a timely manner.

[spendabit]

I believe you all are under the mistaken belief that it was the woman that was invited to be on the panel. Where you went wrong in your logic is that is was actually her Shoes that were asked to be on the panel. The woman, was simply there to facilitate getting the Shoes there in a timely manner.

Also, you will notice there is a typo on the screen, it should have said Elizabeth Rossiello's Shoes.

Where you went wrong in your logic is that is was actually her Shoes that were asked to be on the panel. The woman, was simply there to facilitate getting the Shoes there in a timely manner.

What exactly is going on here with postnapping and why??

[futureofbitcoin]

I think if someone decides to not investigate more into bitcoin because of a photo, then they're not worth the time.

Seriously, who cares?

[vodaljepa]

Does it really matter? it's just a photo

[27QVUTZj8rgZP1]

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.

 

[futureofbitcoin]

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.

 

Dude, you're the reason feminists exist :|

But seriously, if it was the guy on the left who got cut out, would anyone care? Exactly.

[TKeenan]

Does it really matter? it's just a photo

It matters to those being excluded.  Here was a good chance to improve the 'face' of bitcoin by including a woman.  Instead, coindesk cut out the only woman on stage and showed 5 guys instead.  I think OP has a point.

[mki8]

I've been trying to get women and men on-baord Bitcoin since 2012. No women that I know have been interested at all... until Bitcoin started gaining in value. That tells me all I need to know about women and Bitcoin. It's boring to them or to risky to even consider... until it becomes valuable and massively adopted so they risk little.

You are explaining the wrong things to them,
The easiest way to explain to a woman is quite simple
Have some BTC at hand ready, Then:
Have the woman select something she wants to buy on amazon,
Once she has selected desired item or items,
Then show her purse.io
Then buy the desired items at 15% discount, either by making her buy bitcoin which could be time consuming,
or the easier way you just pay with your bitcoin and she gives you cash.
If a woman see's she can save money she will be interested.
Woman (mostly) think a lot differently to men in regards to money and future etc.
You need to show people the here and now, not explain how they can cash out in future and make money.
Show women how to save on purse.io and how they can sell old stuff for free on openbazaar.

explaining about price of btc rising in future comes later, and is just a bonus, not everyone wants to be a trader.

[salmanahmedone]

May be you have a mistake, may be it is not original photo, if someone have the same photo than it is helpful for the judgement with evidence, but i believe it is by mistakenly happen, so it is not the fault of Coindesk.  

[mki8]

and about the photo
WHO FKKN CARES ?

its just a photo, keep all that PCBS away from bitcoin,
stop bringing it to bitcoin with Dupid comments,
this photo is the reason Blah blah blah

Maybe she just wasnt that important regardless of her sex WHO CARES
Maybe the person taking the photo had something blocking their view WHO CARES
Maybe the photgrapher or coindesk cropped it how they see fit WHO CARES
Maybe someone at coindesk does not like that person personally (regardless of sex) WHO CARES
Maybe she did not give coindesk her consent to use her in images WHO CARES

STOP PC in BTC, it does not belong here and everyone already knows how ridiculous PC is in the real world.

i would say one reason women are slow to adopt, is everyone seems to think people want to know about the details,
women and men, do not care about details, they care about uses,
show women how they can save money buying goods from amazon via purse.io and they will soon be interested,
dont bother explaining fk all about halving, price rising, faucets, none of that, as all that comes later.

[Kakmakr]

and about the photo
WHO FKKN CARES ?

its just a photo, keep all that PCBS away from bitcoin,
stop bringing it to bitcoin with Dupid comments,
this photo is the reason Blah blah blah

Maybe she just wasnt that important regardless of her sex WHO CARES
Maybe the person taking the photo had something blocking their view WHO CARES
Maybe the photgrapher or coindesk cropped it how they see fit WHO CARES
Maybe someone at coindesk does not like that person personally (regardless of sex) WHO CARES
Maybe she did not give coindesk her consent to use her in images WHO CARES

STOP PC in BTC, it does not belong here and everyone already knows how ridiculous PC is in the real world.

i would say one reason women are slow to adopt, is everyone seems to think people want to know about the details,
women and men, do not care about details, they care about uses,
show women how they can save money buying goods from amazon via purse.io and they will soon be interested,
dont bother explaining fk all about halving, price rising, faucets, none of that, as all that comes later.

I blame the photographer and the photo editor. The photographer should have taken more photo's of the panel to give the editor more options to chose from. If the editor decided to use a cropped photo, he or she should go look for something else, because that was definitely not the best option. 

You said multiple times, WHO CARES. I think the lady excluded in the photo cares and also the friends and family looking at that site. The readers should also care, because next time it could be them. Is this a gender issue? Nope. It is poor quality editing and poor photography.

[mki8]

I blame the photographer and the photo editor. The photographer should have taken more photo's of the panel to give the editor more options to chose from. If the editor decided to use a cropped photo, he or she should go look for something else, because that was definitely not the best option. 

You said multiple times, WHO CARES. I think the lady excluded in the photo cares and also the friends and family looking at that site. The readers should also care, because next time it could be them. Is this a gender issue? Nope. It is poor quality editing and poor photography.

you THINK the lady cares and her friends and family cares, YOU THINK.
again that means nothing as you are assuming that she cares, or assuming that she is looking to be in public light as much as possible.
As for readers caring because it could be them next, first get real, chances of any readers here being cropped in a photo coindesk publish is about the same odds that one of the readers here is SN, and again you would be assuming everyone wants to be in the public light.

It is not for us to assume this or that and get our knickers in a twist for nothing.
no need to make mountains out of mole hills as they say.
like i said no PCBS in BTC

i do agree with your very last statement though.

[btccashacc]

After googled she's name, i found this article from coindesk
http://www.coindesk.com/bitpesa-1-1-million-bitcoin-africa/
and i just knew that girl is a CEO of the african exchanger, so she has importance role in this industry, i think it was human error or something, but it looks unprofessional.

[tobacco123]

I am sure this is one of many pictures, and not the only picture for the meeting. Women are equally important, if not more important, for the growth of bitcoins; otherwise bitcoin will just be a silly game.