juliawise comments on Call for Anonymous Narratives by LW Women and Question Proposals (AMA) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 09 September 2012 09:33:42PM 3 points [-]

What do you think the LW community does right? What good experiences have you had?

Comment author: juliawise 10 September 2012 02:10:35PM 5 points [-]

People have been welcoming and not sketchy at my local meetup. I look forward to going there. I'm pretty constantly aware that I'm the only or one of the only women there, but I don't feel that other people treat me differently because of it. Sometimes I enjoy the gender ratio. My college and most of my jobs were mostly-female, so being in a mostly-male space is novel and interesting. But I also really enjoyed it when a new woman joined the meetup, because it was nice to feel there was someone a bit more like me (female, with good social skills, smart but not a programmer/scientist).