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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 7659344" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>I don't know how "It'd be nice to have a greater diversity on the design team itself" suddenly became "fire people now." There's lots of ways to accomplish that goal in a sustainable way that respects the jobs being done today by the hard-working design staff. One of the most obvious would be, "the next time there's an opening, make sure that there's some viable women candidates in the recruitment pool." Turnover happens, and in the world of WotC, turnover seems to happen not infrequently. </p><p></p><p></p><p>...based on that assumption, you can ask, "in what ways might our pipeline distort the representation of people with kinds of talents we're considering for these roles?"</p><p></p><p>Folks don't need to be actively sexist themselves to perpetuate and participate in a pattern of behavior that results in unintentional biases like "we have no women designers on the team" and the negative effects that spiral out of that. </p><p></p><p></p><p>It wasn't intended as a counterpoint to anything, or as a presentation of someone else's actual argument, just as an acknowledgement that there are women doing awesome D&D (and D&D-ish) things who are not paid D&D designers. That is, who gets to be a paid D&D designer at WotC isn't determined purely on merit. Which shouldn't really be very shocking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 7659344, member: 2067"] I don't know how "It'd be nice to have a greater diversity on the design team itself" suddenly became "fire people now." There's lots of ways to accomplish that goal in a sustainable way that respects the jobs being done today by the hard-working design staff. One of the most obvious would be, "the next time there's an opening, make sure that there's some viable women candidates in the recruitment pool." Turnover happens, and in the world of WotC, turnover seems to happen not infrequently. ...based on that assumption, you can ask, "in what ways might our pipeline distort the representation of people with kinds of talents we're considering for these roles?" Folks don't need to be actively sexist themselves to perpetuate and participate in a pattern of behavior that results in unintentional biases like "we have no women designers on the team" and the negative effects that spiral out of that. It wasn't intended as a counterpoint to anything, or as a presentation of someone else's actual argument, just as an acknowledgement that there are women doing awesome D&D (and D&D-ish) things who are not paid D&D designers. That is, who gets to be a paid D&D designer at WotC isn't determined purely on merit. Which shouldn't really be very shocking. [/QUOTE]
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