I want to take a minute and share my reflections on what it means to be a female builder in an era where a level playing field is likely (hopefully) coming…
As the tides change, I think our (us mentors) communication style needs to be redefined
I was watching @Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast pod with Chris, Amir, and Harry recently and Chris made a strong point about Roman Storms case putting a nail in the coffin of development when the state is ruling with SUCH a heavy hand against developers
He said, “who will still develop in that environment? I mean, I know the 3 of us…? But who wants to build with 40 years of prison possibly hanging over them?”
As a female, my own influence sometimes makes me anxious… I both worry and get stoked that other newly entering women will test limits that I experiment with because they see me do it
I take on A LOT of risk, I sometimes can feel the men around me recognizing and also getting anxiety about the amount of risk I’m taking (even if they’re proud)
I have a lot of faith- in myself, in humanity, and the future- my ability to know when I’ve pressed the limit too far and to reel it in
I was very young when I was radicalized… I was literally a little girl (like 11 years old) when I started distributing xanga skins and MySpace html layouts to my friends in middle school
My history in this space has taught me things that are hard to learn as an incoming adult all at once
I have no interest in being a martyr… a dead or imprisoned builder is not a final outcome I wish to observe, but it’s genuinely a risk
This intersects with feminism in an interesting way… women have possessed a lot of pretty privilege, a lot of protection privilege in modern history
Social conditioning has allowed us to operate with a sense of ignorance about the possible consequences of our actions
A radical nym profile on the internet often has one objective- distribute radical action among as many people as possible as fast as possible
It does not stop to consider the human on the other side… sometimes they are moms… a mother in prison is not a better society and it’s certainly not a freer one
I don’t have an answer to how the language needs to shift, I only know that I bear some level of responsibility for the influence I have in the female sphere and I think this is important to reflect on that openly and publicly
As the tides change, I think our (us mentors) communication style needs to be redefined
I was watching @Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast pod with Chris, Amir, and Harry recently and Chris made a strong point about Roman Storms case putting a nail in the coffin of development when the state is ruling with SUCH a heavy hand against developers
He said, “who will still develop in that environment? I mean, I know the 3 of us…? But who wants to build with 40 years of prison possibly hanging over them?”
As a female, my own influence sometimes makes me anxious… I both worry and get stoked that other newly entering women will test limits that I experiment with because they see me do it
I take on A LOT of risk, I sometimes can feel the men around me recognizing and also getting anxiety about the amount of risk I’m taking (even if they’re proud)
I have a lot of faith- in myself, in humanity, and the future- my ability to know when I’ve pressed the limit too far and to reel it in
I was very young when I was radicalized… I was literally a little girl (like 11 years old) when I started distributing xanga skins and MySpace html layouts to my friends in middle school
My history in this space has taught me things that are hard to learn as an incoming adult all at once
I have no interest in being a martyr… a dead or imprisoned builder is not a final outcome I wish to observe, but it’s genuinely a risk
This intersects with feminism in an interesting way… women have possessed a lot of pretty privilege, a lot of protection privilege in modern history
Social conditioning has allowed us to operate with a sense of ignorance about the possible consequences of our actions
A radical nym profile on the internet often has one objective- distribute radical action among as many people as possible as fast as possible
It does not stop to consider the human on the other side… sometimes they are moms… a mother in prison is not a better society and it’s certainly not a freer one
I don’t have an answer to how the language needs to shift, I only know that I bear some level of responsibility for the influence I have in the female sphere and I think this is important to reflect on that openly and publicly
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