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How Not to Be a Victim
- Tuesday, November 16, 2004
In the Air
Let's star with how we travel. Remember how passengers were told to act if we were involved in a hijacking before 9/11? By September 12, all that had changed. I was called by many television shows to talk about terrorism, airport security, and how to act on a hijacked plane. I spent considerable time reflecting on my own thoughts about how we should act, hoping many people, even in their shocked state, would listen to me as an expert and do what I said. I wanted to be careful not only to keep people out of harm's way but also to empower them so they could be in charge of their own safety.
I'm not even sure how I would have reacted if I had been on one of the hijacked airplanes on 9/11. But with time, all of us – myself included – have learned better. We've all heard stories since 9/11 of passengers who've stood up to their would-be captors, taken charge, and subdued those who were a violent threat. So what should you do? How do you prepare yourself, and what could you use as a weapon to defend yourself?
First, one's mind-set has to change even before boarding a flight. We should be observant and watch who is getting on the plane. Look for "problem people," those who seem ill at ease or out of place. When you get on the plane, look around to see who is sitting near you, and look for those who could be action people in the event of a problem. Actor James Woods knows what I mean. Shortly before 9/11, while flying from Boston to L.A., he observed several men of Middle Eastern appearance acting in a manner inconsistent with simple travelers flying coast to coast. He knew they were up to something and was unnerved to the point of notifying the flight attendant. The rest of the flight passed uneventfully without Woods knowing what happened to his information. On 9/11, his exact flight was one of those hijacked. Two of the men on his flight were among the nineteen hijackers. Woods had stumbled onto a dry run of the terrorist attack. Sadly, before 9/11, nothing much could be done. Now many additional measures are taken.
After 9/11, I did several shows where we re-enacted an attempted takeover of an airplane. I went through some of the things to do and the potential weapons that are available to passengers. First, in the event of a problem, action must be taken quickly. Mobilize those around you; speak out commands like, "Hijacker! I need help." If the hijacker has a weapon such as a knife, pull off your seat cushion and use it as a weapon to swing at the suspect or to shield the blow if he stabs at you. Books and magazines can be thrown at the suspect to distract them and fend off blows. While this is going on, keep calling out for action from the other passengers. Overpower the suspect with numbers, and you will likely succeed. We can no longer assume hijackings will have a safe conclusion. Our best hope is quick, determined action.
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How do we secure our homes and businesses so we can avoid being targeted in the first place? For years I have been helping people self-evaluate their homes and businesses. Many folks don't have the resources for elaborate alarms, cameras, or other perimeter defenses. This inability to provide security was sadly borne out several years ago when actress Rebecca Schaeffer was killed by a stalker in North Hollywood. Ms Schaeffer had a successful show, "My Sister Sam," and was somewhat known but wasn't yet at the financial level to be able to obtain personal security or live in a high-security environment. The reason she became a victim was because the door surveillance system was broken in her apartment. Unknowingly, when she went to her front door, she went to her death.
I have trained hundreds of people, businesses, and families to do a self-audit of their homes, offices, and lifestyles. First, keep in mind that what we shouldn't do in our homes and businesses is the same thing that the little old lady did in my illustration at the beginning of this chapter: don't look like a victim. I've interviewed career criminals who specialized in home break-ins, and they all said they cased a neighborhood, looking for the easiest home to get into. They're not looking for a challenge; they're looking for a quick, trouble-free score. For them, an easy home is one with no visible security measures and those that have low visibility from the street. Even though this book focuses on terrorism, the mind-set to keep us from becoming a victim of the terrorist starts with the basic procedures we use in our everyday lives. If we are going to travel with peace of mind – and that really is what I seek to give the clients of West Coast Detective group International – we need to know that our family and businesses are secure when we leave.
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Why Does Everyone Hate Teresa Giudice?by Hilton Hater at . Comments
For those not keeping track, the only person more unpopular in New Jersey these days than Teresa Giudice is The Situation. And maybe Snooki. Probably JWOWW, too.
But Teresa's castmates seriously detest this woman, as was made evident on last Sunday night's Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion special, and again this week when Caroline Manzo went off on her former pal.
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Why all the disdain? It's a matter of jealousy and money, a source tells the tabloid, as Jacqueline Laurita is allegedly bitter over Teresa's lifestyle.
"I've seen her husband Chris' credit cards declined numerous times," this mole said of Jacqueline's struggles, even accusing Laurita of selling a photo of Joe Giudice and another woman that led to this infidelity rumor.Teresa, of course, has pretty much invited the scorn of her co-stars.
She recently claimed the only reason Melissa Gorga married her husband was because of his bank account.
"We were out to dinner with a few other couples," Teresa says of an incident that took place early on in Melissa and Joe Gorga's relationship. "She got a little buzzed, and she said she didn't like him when she first met him. 'But then,' she says, 'I saw his house.'"
After watching part 2 of the 2011 reunion and all I wanted to say was "Caroline shut up" she thinks she knows every answer to everything, she butts in to everyone's lifes and most times she just interferes to get her face on camera, her ego has gotten out of hand, and by attacking Theresa she knows she will get the most attention, Enough Caroline worry about yourself and stay out of other people's busy.
Teresa is an idiot! She is completely back tracking on everything she has said and done th season. Does she not realize its all on tape... Yikes! What the hell is wrong with her???
Caroline is a hypocrite with the "destroying my family" BS. She attacked and bullied Danielle mercilessly and was most certainly was harmful to Danielles young daughters. Caroline needs to get off her sanctimonious throne and take a look in the mirror. Integrity is also about how you treat other people and she and the entire Manzo family bullied a single mom who was not stable and her young daughters were the victimized by it. After reducing Danielle to "garbage" Caroline then stood up for the lying, 2X drunk driver, reckless and dishonest fraud, Joe Guidice. Shes an authority on how to be a bully and a hypocrite. I cant stand Teresa either. They deserve each other.
champagne lifestyle on a beer budget
Isn't a bit far fetched to think that Jacqueline who has never been "flashy" would be jealous of Teresa's lifestyle? Also, Jacqueline's husband loves her. Maybe Teresa is jealous of Jacqueline...now this much more believable.
Wow! In Touch Magazine will put Teresa's face on their cover and less than true statements about her cast. Sure way to deflect from her own problems...mainly her cheating lazy husband.
When you put your "personal business" out there for all to see. Don't be disappointed if everyone does Not see everything your way. By all indications, Teresa's brother adores Melissa, and that is Not going to change. If anything Teresa is going to be swimming around in more boiling hot water for claiming such a tall tale about Melissa.
A little food for thought:
Teresa has bitten off more than she can chew in dealing with the other housewives. For whatever reasons, she has turned them off, which means that other family members are going to be turned off to Teresa. Appearing on covers of magazines telling her side is Not going to help anything either. The best that Teresa can do is to try and go quietly back into life in New Jersey. We all know that ain't gonna happen because she like attention too much even if that attention is proving to be an embarrassment to all the families involved in this modern day Peyton Place atmosphere!!
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The mischievous chipmunk trio has been enduringly popular since its Grammy-winning 1958 single "The Chipmunk Song," written by the critters' creator, Ross Bagdasarian. Many recordings and animated TV series and specials later, Ross Bagdasarian Jr. has continued the saga of the chipmunks with live-action films starring Jason Lee as their long-suffering human pal, Dave Seville.
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It begins as Dave, the three chipmunks, and their female counterparts, the Chipettes, board a cruise ship (intrusive product placement alert) for a much-needed vacation (cue the Go-Go's). As usual, Alvin keeps getting into trouble, and Dave keeps apologizing for the chaos Alvin leaves behind. Their old nemesis Ian shows up, too, in a pelican costume. There's an amusing nightclub scene when the Chipettes are challenged to a dance-off to the inescapable earworm "Party Rock."
When a kite mishap carries the chipmunks out to sea, Dave and Ian go after them via parasail, and everyone ends up cast away on a remote island with only one inhabitant, the stranded Zoe (Slate). Yes, it's time for Destiny's Child's "Survivor."
This is the best part of the movie as the chipmunks are pushed outside of their usual personas. When the cautious, bookish Simon is bit by a toxic insect, he has a temporary personality change, announcing he is a dashing French-accented daredevil. Without Simon to act as leader, Alvin has to stop being "the fun one" and be responsible for taking care of the others. Chipette Jeanette learns that she can be more than just pretty and rely on her intelligence and resourcefulness, especially after they discover hidden treasure, another Chipette is "chipnapped" and a volcano starts to erupt.
With their sped-up voices unrecognizable, top talents Justin Long, Jesse McCarthy, Amy Poehler, Anna Faris and Christina Applegate are wasted as the chipmunks. The same could be said for musical numbers. Upbeat tunes by edgy performers like LMFAO, Lady Gaga and Pink are homogenized into indistinguishable rhythmic buzz. For kids, the familiarity, the silliness and Dave's unconditional love make "Chipwrecked" appealing. For adults, the best it has to offer are nostalgia and a running time under 90 minutes.


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A battery isolator can enable you to charge two different types of batteries (deep cycle and a starter battery) from your main motor's alternator without them discharging each other. This is unlike the Series or Parallel connections when you have identical batteries connected together and working in tandem. When I added my third deep cycle battery to run the majority of my electronics I wanted to be able to tap into the alternator on my main motor to charge this deep cycle battery while running the main motor.
Battery IsolatorI spoke with my marine mechanic who recommended this device. He also looked up the diagram of my Mercury motor in his directory and showed me where the alternator wire came off the motor and showed me how to hook it up properly. Here is a diagram of what he told me to do.
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...[W]e should hire based on merit, and not gender.
I would like to compose a reply directly to that person. But as a "comment" my reply is too, too long, I think, so I'm posting it as a blargh over here instead.
Friend, I'll be honest: Every time I hear this phrase uttered anew, my brain explodes. The unfortunate — and unintended, I know! — insinuation being made here is that "merit" and "gender" (or "race," or "sexual orientation" or whatever) are somehow mutually exclusive. Yikes! Instead of letting people own their personal achievements, we perhaps suspect them of being hired according to some mysterious "quota." Yikes again!
No one is saying "hire a woman instead of a competent, qualified person." Yikes, yikes, yikes!
But I know that isn't what you mean by "merit-based hiring." You mean, in an ideal world, to never take gender into account when choosing the best man for the job.
Incidentally, a friend and colleague of mine said exactly this same thing to me — about how we should hire "according to merit" (or experience) "rather than gender," and he said this word-for-word — last week during GDC. I'd like to tell you exactly what I told my friend:
"Pretend I'm a guy." ("Ha, ha," my friend said.) ("Okay," I said, "wait. I think my analogy might work even if I'm not a guy. But follow me here.")
("Okay," said my friend.)
So here I am with my super-great idyllic childhood, okay. I get adopted by an upper-middle-class family living in a small, mostly-white town, so I have mostly white friends. I'm "privileged" in every measurable sense of the word. I eventually go on to a highly-ranked university, thanks to a rad letter of recommendation from an alumna (my high school geometry teacher, actually!). I land myself a spot in a pretty competitive major that contains only, say, fifteen students total, most of whom are white, half of whom are young men, half young women.
These people go directly into my Rolodex.
By 2006 I am salaried at a company where I am one among a teensy handful of women, where most of the people I work with — the people I communicate with during any given day — are mostly men, often white. And I don't just mean my coworkers, here; I mean, literally, every other person I communicate with, whether at Konami, Activision, maybe a PR firm like Edelman...! Whoever it is, I'm talking to dudes all day. It's dudes all the way down.
So, naturally, I put all these people into my Rolodex.
("I like how you keep saying Rolodex," my friend teased me.)
("It's not a metaphor!" I told him. "I literally use a Rolodex! It's totally a holdover from that old desk job." The Rolodex, already full of contacts, was sitting on my desk when I got there.)
So now I've got a Rolodex full of people I've worked with, people who I know to be talented and trustworthy. If you were to ask me "Hey, Jenn, who's a good person for
[literally anything]," I might thumb through my Rolodex and pull out a white dude and go, "I can vouch for this person; he's good."
Now, I'm not deliberately being malicious or nasty or sexist, here; I'm not, like, going out of my way to NOT promote women or other outliers. It's just that, for my first six-odd years in this industry, I mostly knew dudes. And you can't convince me my "old guard" Rolodex lacks merit, right? These are the people with whom I'm most comfortable working. This is what I know.
"We all have Rolodexes, so to speak," I said to my friend, "and we all believe our Rolodexes contain people of merit and real value. And of course I'll get offended if you tell me my Rolodex is 'whitewashed'. But it IS whitewashed, because these are the people I've always interacted with, have always worked with."
My Rolodex used to be an echo chamber: It resembled, I suspect, a lot of other industry professionals' Rolodexes.
This Rolodex analogy is how we keep perpetuating something called institutionalized sexism (also, institutionalized racism, plus institutionalized homophobia and transphobia). Really talented people — people who aren't yet in a fellow colleague's "Rolodex" — never quite get that foot in the door. Of course they can't, because we're all too busy consulting these Rolodexes of people we already know, rather than seeking fresh — and oftentimes unproven! — talent.
The reality is, there is an unconscious "gender bias," according to Scientific American. That uncanny bias repeats itself in every field. It is both institutionalized and internalized: Even women and minorities ignore academic queries and requests from other women and minorities. (One peer, a Mr. John Brindle, put it really well tonight: It isn't that we actively discriminate against anybody in particular. It's that we constantly discriminate IN FAVOR of white men.)
So I have a certain ethical responsibility, I told this friend of mine at GDC, to kind of combat my own established Rolodex. I've started asking around about who maybe isn't on my radar yet. Maybe I'll keep my ear a little lower to the ground during GDC or IndieCade. Maybe I've started to realize my colleagues' Rolodexes are a little better than mine — "diversified portfolios," as an investment banker might call them.
Maybe I'd like to start signal-boosting competent, talented people who don't yet have fleshed-out résumés, "if for no other reason," I said to my friend at GDC, "than to NOT BE BORING. Being BORING is the greatest crime you can do unto another."
And we ARE being boring! In the U.S. — and this should be a galling factoid, regardless of who you are — Caucasian men account for 34% of the population (and about 80% of the decision-making, oh ho ho ho). White guys really are the majority, in the sense that they make up the widest swath of people, but they are overrepresented in, ah, basically every sphere. (Women love fashion design? Name me one woman NOT VERA WANG who designs clothes, fellows. Women love cooking? Name me one NOT RACHAEL RAY celebrity chef. Women love hair? Name me a single hairstylist who isn't Paul Mitchell. Even the superstars of "women's work" are men.)
To compare: half the U.S. population is Women, All Women. So when anyone issues a challenge like "How about employing a lady in that particular type of position, for a change," that person is asking you to limbo under a bar with some hilariously spacious berth.
"We should hire based on merit, rather than gender."
These are bold words to speak to a class of people that, even now, is consistently written out of history books and continues to receive unequal pay. Our collective "merit" is diminished each day of the week, regardless of our individual achievements.
In his book The Sky Is Not the Limit, Neil DeGrasse Tyson writes at length about the people who, at every turn, encouraged him to leave astrophysics. "To spend most of my life fighting these attitudes," he writes, "levies an emotional tax that constitutes a form of intellectual emasculation."
And while DeGrasse Tyson graciously never names the university that caused him so much pain, he does go on to credit the university to which he transferred, his alma mater Columbia, with a portion of his success:
"There are no limits when you are surrounded by people who believe in you, or by people whose expectations are not set by the short-sighted attitudes of society, or by people who help to open doors of opportunity, not close them."
They're beautiful, optimistic words, words that ought to serve as a clarion call to people in every field of work.
And yet, and yet: If reaching your full potential only requires a supportive network and culture of people, it is small wonder so many women and minorities shy from the video games industry. (DeGrasse Tyson says exactly the same, of women in the sciences, here.)
Just some food for thought.
*addendum: Thanks to my unnamed GDC convo-partner, if he sees this, for the content in this blog post. (Hi!) Thanks, too, to Shawn Allen. Also, Elizabeth Sampat's necessary, must-read blog is what put me into this headspace — it's the first article I can remember in recent history written for other women in the industry, and only for them, by a woman.
Everything above came about because I wanted to very explicitly respond to a comment left on Sampat's post. I feel a little weird in that I admire Sampat's post's willingness to talk to fellow women, while I — once again — am writing directly to other men. I'm not sure what this means, either, but I do acknowledge it.
|Katy Smith
This is really well written! Thanks! Also, "dudes all the way down" is going to work its way into my discussions on this topic from now on :)
|Katy Smith
double post, so here's an Ascii turtle.
|Sean Kiley
When you talk about pulling job applicants from a Rolodex, I think you are arguing against a certain type of nepotism which has the effect of favoring installed industry majorities.
However when talking about resumes/demos coming into an office, I think hiring on merit makes sense.
|Leszek Szczepanski
I don't see the connection between the quote and the Rolodex.
You're looking for new faces, outside the list of contacts you already have. Great! However does it matter if the new face is of a man or woman? As far as I understand it shouldn't.
When your looking for an employee, gender, age, race, sexual orientation should be totally off the table. What is left? Skills, passion, knowledge etc.
The rolodex is a different problem, not related to gender at all.
|Maurício Gomes
People should not be hiring from the rolodex with a few exceptions, you should be hiring from the resumes people sent you.
And when hiring from the resumes sent you, you should hire based on merit.
Too bad this is to ask too much (I don't know anyone in the "mainstream" AAA industry, and I never figured how to get to know anyone, or get hired, or anything like that, I live in Brazil, don't have money to visit a conference, and it is obvious that success in the game industry is still mostly tied to who you know, do not matter if you are employee, employer, indie, AAA, business owner, QA, coder, artist, black, white, woman, men, gay, hetero, brazillian, polish, japanese...)
|Paul Borawski
Great article! It's very to the point of the problem, and yes like she said in an ideal world only merit SHOULD matter but we don't live in that world. Most jobs I have had and that I have helped my friends get are through referrals. It's the way the world works. You hire who you know to lessen the risk of someone not working out. So to say that hiring on merit makes sense is a non starter. It all goes to privilege, white men (myself included) have had it pretty easy getting into the door in most places of business. While I am not rich nor come from a rich family, I definitely concede I have had it easier than many other people I know just based on my sex and race. I hope more articles are written like this on Gamasutra. Great job!
|Laura Frentzl
> Really talented people people who aren't yet in a fellow colleague's "Rolodex" never quite get that foot in the door. Of course they can't, because we're all too busy consulting these Rolodexes of people we already know, rather than seeking fresh and oftentimes unproven! talent.
This is true regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. Those doing the hiring would rather not take a chance on unproven talent. It's the old Catch 22: "I can't get a job unless I have experience. I can't get experience until I have a job."
> Women love fashion design? Name me one woman NOT VERA WANG who designs clothes, fellows.
Coco Chanel. Liz Claiborne. Donatella Versace. Donna Karan.
> Women love cooking? Name me one NOT RACHAEL RAY celebrity chef.
Paula Deen. Julia Child. Sandra Lee. Giada de Laurentiis. Ina Garten. Anne Burrell. Padma Lakshmi. Have you ever watched the Food Network?
> Women love hair? Name me a single hairstylist who isn't Paul Mitchell. Even the superstars of "women's work" are men.)
Tracey Cunningham. Marie Robinson.
Just because you don't know them doesn't mean they don't exist.
Look closer at the labor statistics: white males comprise 34% of the population, but they comprise 43% of the workforce; 53% of the labor pool is made of up men. That's both employed and unemployed. According to the BLS's report on women, in 1970, 11% of women in the labor force held college degrees. In 2011, that number rose to 37%. Only 33% of men in the labor force have college degrees. Of men and women in the labor force whom have college degrees, 95.75% and 95.73% are employed. In 2011, women accounted for 51% of all people employed in management, professional, and related occupations -- higher than women's share of the labor pool (47%). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Women in the Labor Force: A Databook (February 2013).
Women hold 4.6% of Fortune 500 CEO positions. That's a damning number, but consider that it was 0% less than thirty years ago -- in 1986, Liz Claiborne (remember her?) was the first woman to become CEO of a Fortune 500.
Overall, women are making gains. Let's focus on the positive. Continue supporting and encouraging women -- and men -- to seek jobs wherever their interests may lie.
|Elizabeth Sampat
Jenn, you know I think this post is amazing and important. And I wouldn't worry too much about your audience it's good that you're talking to men, because as the comments show, Lord knows they need it.
|Kris Graft
Dudes all the way down, indeed. Great post, Jenn. Thanks for posting it here.
|John Trauger
This is a tough problem. Nobody likes discrimination. (OK, very few)
But at the same time games are a business. Skilled people are needed for skilled positions or the business potentially suffers. And most of the skilled people are guys.
If Jenn is asked for a recommendation, she is being asked for her opinion. In that context there is nothing wrong with her choosing to favor a woman. That's her choice and a part of what makes up her criterion for who to recommend. The stock people will put in her opinion will rise and fall with the fortunes of the names she gives that actually get the job.
It's a very different thing for an employer to intentionally and systematically exclude or include a group.
A part of this is also just the time it takes to become a seasoned dev. Women have to work their way up to senior positions, pay their dues. Not just as rank-and-file devs, but as dev superstars. We need female John Carmacks and Peter Molyneuxes making the games they truly want to make and selling a bunch of them.
About 10 years ago, I remember reading about black university students and Affirmative Action. In many cases, students who were placed in universities their grades would not have gotten in them into, the students dropped out after a year or two from the pressure. Affirmative Action did not get them an advanced degree from prestigious school.
The worst thing someone like Jenn could do for women in games is recommend a woman for a position she isn't ready for. By all means seek out qualified women, but the word is "qualified".
|Sean Gubelman
You rock. This article is fantastic. (Created this account to tell you that)
|Ben Sheftel
I'm happy to have stimulated such interesting discussion!
"The unfortunate and unintended, I know! insinuation being made here is that "merit" and "gender" (or "race," or "sexual orientation" or whatever) are somehow mutually exclusive"
I didn't make any statements about the relationship between merit and gender, just that hiring should only consider the former (The Employment Non-Discrimination Act agrees with me). An analogy might be that the Army assesses physical fitness of men and women equally, regardless of any correlation between gender and physical fitness.
I'm a bit confused as to whether you're saying that merit based hiring practices are bad or ineffective. You mention, even in bold, that people should own their personal achievements, and I didn't think that making the statement "gender discrimination in hiring decisions is bad" would be controversial, so I'll assume the second.
Like others, I agree with your main point that candidates for jobs are often determined by existing relationships. This may slow changes in employee demographics. I certainly agree that we should change that by considering as many candidates as possible to find the best employees. But I still believe that the hiring process should only take into account the candidate's merit (talent, passion, etc). Elizabeth encouraged the reader to "employ women whenever possible", which would of course discriminate by gender.
|Christian Kulenkampff
Great post, thank you! I can totally confirm your experience when it comes to software developers in general... -.-
|Rochelle Briar
"You mean, in an ideal world, to never take gender into account when choosing the best man for the job."
well, no, i wouldn't assume gender would be taken into account when hiring men.
|James Margaris
Elizabeth Sampat's post is full of pretty good practical advice on increasing diversity in hiring. It might be nice to create a concise list as a sort of "diversity hiring for dummies" as something a little more digestible than a big block of text.
* Don't emphasize drinking and partying in recruitment drives
* Don't talk about your "work hard play hard" mentality and foosball table
* Do talk about creativity and family friendliness
* Do review resumes without names attached
* Don't rely on connections when hiring, look for fresh applicants
Personally I find "work hard play hard" sort of positioning to be a huge turnoff - I read it as "work a lot then go out after work and drink a lot." Same with Friday drinking and things like that. I'm not really into foosball or foosball culture, if that's a thing that I didn't just make up. So these are not only good ideas for hiring women but also for hiring people with different mentalities.
|Luis Guimaraes
On one side, some say to not hire from withing the industry specially not hire males.
Parallel to that, an explanation about why people hire from withing the industry and how hiring males is a side-effect of it.
On the other side, people working indie, making mods, going to gamejams to either break in or better yet, create their own spot in the videogames industry.
In the center, massive layoffs and big studio shutdowns news every single month. Lots of experienced and known developers looking for jobs, most of which are male as the current demographics point.
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|Laura Bularca
Great article :) But I am a bit confused on the advice. Here is why (maybe I am missing the point):
How do you hire a person you do not know based on merit, when that person has no industry work experience? Its a bit of a catch 22 and let me explain: an amazingly talented artist is easy to spot, but how about his working practices, his skills to integrate in a game development team, maybe for example he never worked with any planning tools, maybe he produces amazing art extremely slowly, maybe he is wonderfully skilled but not a team player? I also had a first step in this industry and try to do the best I can to evangelize it, but when it comes to hiring someone, I cherish the work experience because I know, no matter how different the previous studios he worked for were, he still understands the responsibility of delivering and also has a measure of professionalism and a certain attitude that you can hardly learn unless you have been there. I wish we lived in a gentler world where newcommers can get the time and attention they need, but when you have to deliver fast, the previous experience is invaluable. So as much as I hate to admit, I do always look at my Rolodex (this is a word I learned today :D) and indeed, due to many factors, that Rolodex is overwhelmingly masculine.
I think the best we can do to change this is make this world of ours more open. My girl friends will NEVER read Gamasutra but might read somewhat more commercial sites. They will NEVER read a coding tutorial but they MIGHT read nicely written postmortems about indie games they might play. Some would be interested in the art behind Clumsy Ninja :) but unless you have a particular, tageted interest in game dev and know where to look for dev stories and where to look so you can get a feeling about this industry... How could the idea to work there ever occur?
And in those not-game-dev-targeted places, we can shape that inexperienced person based on merit, we can guide that potential candidate into how to prepare a portfolio, how to be convincing in a job interview.I know this is happening, a little, but keep in mind that I have a different experience than someone from US. I know Leigh publishes in other places than game dev oriented places but I wish I'd see one of her amazing articles in Elle, or something.Thats my idea to get a more diversified game dev community.
|Kris Graft
I feel like if everyone took some time to understand what institutionalized discrimination is and what it entails, this conversation would be more productive. Once people understand that the benefits of breaking that system outweigh the drawbacks, we can maybe start to make progress.
|Aline N
Ideally, I would love it if all applicants were judged strictly on merit. Unfortunately, people cannot easily separate themselves from the biases.
Numerous studies have shown that both men and women are biased against women. Here are two:
A good summary of the first article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/science/bias-persists-against-w
The same application was given to all participants, with the only different being that half had a male name (John) and the other half had a female name (Jennifer). Participants judged the male participant as more competent (4/7 vs 3.3/7 for the female applicant) and were willing to pay the male applicant more ($30,328 vs. $26,508 for female named applicant). Also, the male applicant was seen more favorably as someone to hire and mentor.
To be fair, there is a similar bias against men in nursing. Human beings are not able to objective in the face of gender and race. The question isn't whether it exists. The question is what should be done about it.
Perhaps companies could start ranking applications anonymously or give all applications the same male name?
I think women would do very well in an objective comparison, if it were possible to do one.
|Steven Bobson
This is old, I know. But I don't understand this blog post at all.
You start out by saying that merit and gender aren't mutually exclusive. Of course, I think that's obvious.
You then explain why hiring experienced individual based on previous contact is biased to the status quo. You have a point here, and your suggestion of intentionally diversifying your pool of contacts is good. Except I would argue that this is completely different than hiring based on merit. Your analogy was strictly about hiring based on pre-existing relationships and says nothing about merit.
You then state that the collective merit of women is being reduced by society. This seems to indicate that you believe women are disadvantaged when merit is used to determine the best hire. You're setting up the mutual exclusion you decried at the start of the article: if we can't choose based on merit because merit is not fair, then what are we supposed to hire on? Gender?


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Preface to
In the Light of Evolution, Volume V:
Cooperation and Conflict
This book is the outgrowth of the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium "Cooperation and Conflict," which was sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences on January 7–8, 2011, at the Academy's Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, California. It is the fifth in a series of colloquia under the general title "In the Light of Evolution." The first four books in this series were titled Adaptation and Complex Design (Avise and Ayala, 2007), Biodiversity and Extinction (Avise et al., 2008), Two Centuries of Darwin (Avise and Ayala, 2009a), and The Human Condition (Avise and Ayala, 2009b). The current volume explores recent developments in the study of cooperation and conflict, ranging from the level of the gene to societies and symbioses.
Any student of history knows that we humans can be a vicious lot, but paradoxically we are also among nature's great cooperators. Which of us, as an individual, can manufacture a cell phone or an airplane? Even our great conflicts—wars—are extremely cooperative endeavors on each side. Some of this cooperation is best understood culturally, but we are also products of evolution, with bodies, brains, and behaviors molded by natural selection. How cooperation evolves has been one of the big questions in evolutionary biology, and how it pays or does not pay is a great intellectual puzzle.
If nothing makes sense in biology except in the light of evolution (Dobzhansky, 1973), then for the first century after Darwin, cooperation and altruism did not make much sense. We could see that individual organisms sometimes helped others, even at a cost to their own fitness. It