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Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals (arstechnica.com)
submitted 7 months ago by mox@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, you're right.

But I'm a little optimistic. The image being widely used for decades is a symptom, not the cause of women being unwelcome.

With it being finally banned, it seems like this is changing. Hopefully this means the root cause, misogyny in tech, is at an all time low.

[โ€“] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Fully agreed, it was a symptom of a larger problem, not the problem itself. I hope in professional circles this trend continues.