Naomi shared pointed criticism around diversity at Maker Faire Shenzhen, including the very important issues of not being sufficiently inclusive of female makers, and the over-representation of foreign-born makers. I should have put more effort into addressing those issues myself and I fully accept responsibility for not doing so. I realize that I contributed to the marginalization of women and local makers in China and I apologize for that.
With feedback from Naomi, we are working on a set of actions Make: will take to address her concerns.
With permission from Naomi, we will feature Naomi and her work on the cover of the next issue of Make: along with a full-length story about her work. We will invite her and help her obtain a VISA to a USA Maker Faire in 2018, covering her travel and expenses. We will be publishing a diversity audit of Make: as a company and our properties, and will be setting goals to drive progress on these issues. We will be assembling advisory boards to work with our Maker Faire organizers to ensure our events are representative of our entire community. We will invite Naomi to be part of any advisory board for events in China.
I’ve come to realize a couple of important things about this particular interaction: my response reflected my unconscious biases; and the negative impact of my tweets was amplified by the fact that I, a white, Western, male CEO of a key company in the Maker community, publicly questioned a young, female, self-employed Chinese maker. I specifically apologize for the tactless use of quotes around “her” in a tweet of mine that was offensive to Naomi and all women.
Lucas Murphy
Great discussion on HN. Unless you agree with the apology your post is [flagged] [dead] This is worse than reddit, not only is your post just a bit less visible, it's basically deleted unless you're browsing with an account and showdead enabled.
Jaxon Cruz
thanks for posting, i couldn't be bothered to make a new throwaway to read these
sounds like HN is going the way of Slashdot
Christopher Thompson
So what they're saying is "everyone is welcome in America" but they're also saying "everyone should stop going to China". WOW DIVERSITY IS MY NEW ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE THING IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD NOW
Sebastian Garcia
>apologizing to a plastic bug woman what the fuck is wrong with this guy
Jack Flores
I just taped an led and a battery to a tank top. Who do I talk to about booking my flight to the US?
Colton Garcia
We also want to hear from you, our community. What conversations are you having around issues of inclusion in the maker movement? What are your challenges and concerns? Would you like to write on this topic, or recommend diverse makers for us to cover online or the magazine? Please send us your input at [email protected]. This is just the first step in a series of discussions around these topics we plan to host on the pages of Make:, in online communities, and in person at Maker Faires around the world.
Elijah Wilson
I want that slut to rub her titities on my face and I want to rub my cock on her tits
Cameron Evans
do you want her to open bobs too? calm down pajeet
Daniel Evans
> the very important issues of not being sufficiently inclusive of female makers >Hey, you're complete shit at this, but we need more women, so please show up! Diversity quotas are fucking retarded
Zachary Morales
you know you could always get women on board that aren't whores. It kind of defeats the point of inspiring young girls to get into the field when you put some plastic tramp who only became recognized for doing basic shit in embarassing outfits on a pedastal.
Parker Young
>I want that slut to rub her padded bra on my face and I want to rub my cock on her bra ftfy
Mason Butler
>gets complaint about over representation of foreigners >responds by putting foreigner on the cover wew lads
also that whore isnt a "maker" shes a cyber prostitute. nasty plastic gook bitch with an exhibitionism fetish.
Dominic Howard
the problem is no one wants to hire the women who aren't whores because the women who aren't whores won't blow them during the "interview"
Nathan Lopez
But the groups behind all this nonsense don't care about women and getting them in good careers for the sake of women, they're just pushing it as they do because it creates friction between men and women and it's from this friction these groups derive their power and ultimately wealth. They just use women as their currency.
The maker community is 90% wannabe EE's playing around with Tarduinos. Why is it somehow out of the realm of possibility that a female could join such a brainlet-tier activity?
Wyatt Robinson
I've honestly never seen any substantive justification for all the hate this woman gets. So she just makes silly fashion accessories and likes to look slutty in public.
Who fucking cares.
Brody Martin
> fake apology to a fake maker with fake tits poetic, in a way
Michael Carter
I meant the links from the bottom post in your image but its alright I found them
>I would seek to position it as "Yes, I happen to be a young, pretty, busty woman. I also happen to dress like this. Yes, I am also a maker and coder." I would actively avoid pictures that look like "Hi, I am a Playboy Bunny and the goal of posting this photo is to get you to fantasize about me while you masturbate."
Ryder Jenkins
Some feminist will rant over her...
Brandon Myers
The fuck is a "maker" lol? And why the hell would anyone invest their time into reading into any of this bullshit?
James Collins
A person who 3d prints boxes and puts raspberry pis in them
Hunter Jones
>there are guys who think she is hot
Aaron Rogers
The whole maker community thing is bullshit anyway. It's just people 3d printing shitty toys and sometimes slappibg leds on them.
Adrian Scott
is she a ladyboy?
Luke Sanders
>and the over-representation of foreign-born makers Why aren't Americans allowed to protest the over representation of pajeets and chinks?
Justin Watson
We could but we're just all giant pussies that would rather be cucked than called racist.
Landon Myers
Do you think talking in that way helps your cause?
Elijah Phillips
>makers
They should gas anyone who calls themselves that
Joshua Phillips
Can you make clocks and a dramatic scene? (The clock making doesn't actually matter that much, you can just crack open an alarm clack desu)
Every time I see a group call themselves a "movement", I always think about the person who said it taking a shit, and everything they're saying about what they're doing, I imagine they're now saying it about that turd he/she just laid out.
Luke Jenkins
((()))
Blake Brooks
i just did a search on reddit for new posts, it's been posted a shitload on "aznidentity" "hapas" "feminist" and so on. they're already doing it.
Ian Wright
everyone screaming about how all white people are racist evil pieces of shit and need to die is helping quite a lot. sitting back and taking it doesn't fucking help.
Joshua Rivera
>everyone screaming about how all white people are racist evil pieces of shit and need to die is helping quite a lot. can confirm, i was much less racist before people started slinging blanket accusations at me with no logical basis
past a certain point i just decided that if brownies want to get gassed i might as well oblige
Bentley Hall
they fucked her over pretty hard the maker ceo officialy called her a front for somebody else and that she doesnt make the shit shes showing off herself. after that her sponsors went silent= she lost her basis of income for her work/making stuff.
if you really look into it you will see that its just a dick move by the maker side and they should somehow compensate to not fuck the other side over completly
Cooper Cook
Wait, what?
If she actually makes things herself it would be trivially easy to show and then you are just getting free publicity at that point.
If your entire life could be fucked up by the fact that somebody claimed you are a front on the internet then your life is shit.
Jose Robinson
Does sound pretty brutal to be honest. Even if she is a bimbo, that's just not cool. This would work in America, but not in China.
Zachary Cook
you talk about the guy who owns MAKER the mag bashing her on twitter and she is a self employd from china
you cant really have normal conversations with people shitposting on twitter also she got a yt channel and blog where she posts stuff she makes etc
Gabriel Lewis
>This would work in America, but not in China. this chinese are retarded you get face credit when your white there. like would you trust the oppinion of a white guy or a chinese you know will fuck you over.
Noah Nelson
>We will be publishing a diversity audit of Make: as a company and our properties, and will be setting goals to drive progress on these issues.
Juan Allen
yet another fucking thing the leftists are sticking their tendrils into. they won't fucking stop. they're infesting fucking EVERYTHING. i don't know the exact circumstances besides what i've read here and everywhere else, so i don't know if this chick is a manipulative bitch or what, but you fucking know the left is already going to use this shit as another clickbait virtue signal to get their retards all riled up. the makerspace i've been to near me a few times is pretty cool, the guys that run it are intelligent and know their shit (not just putting fucking arduinos in boxes), but we're in the middle of a left as fuck city. i'm expecting it to get invaded anytime now by soyboys and danger hair whales.
Joshua Parker
jesus fuck, the way they completely folded over here.
She went from being a useless cunt with little to no skill and a dumbass fan base To now sitting on advisory boards!
Matthew Ortiz
>you talk about the guy who owns MAKER
and?
Just because you own a magazine doesn't make your opinions anything more than your opinions.
Chase Sullivan
>what the fuck is wrong with this guy maybe he wants to share some bbc with the bug woman?
Austin Kelly
open bob and show pines dirty man :D
Owen Williams
how do people have the time or energy to keep up with all this high school tier drama and diversity bullshit? It must be so tiring detrimental to productivity.
Austin Collins
>Naomi Wu
Oh fuck, I didn't expect to see her on Sup Forums.
Juan Edwards
i love that guy. he makes me feel better about my self. >"I never date a student" >marries student >unemployed >wears a suit like review brah for no reason all the time
Jayden Thomas
Well I don't understand what you're problem is buddy First off, she wasnt my student when we started dating, we just met that way, it has nothing to do with it. Unemployed? I problably make more money than you pal And if you want to know why I wear a suit then you can look at my other videos where I explain it; its necessary in china. Have a good day idiot
Easton Ortiz
I meant it as a source of inspiration. let me rephrase: >hot doctor wife >don't have to work a traditional job >dresses sharp all the time you're living the dream, buddy! makes me feel like I can make it, too
Juan Davis
haha maybe you shouldnt marry a fucking chink and someone white you god damn race mixing piece of shit
Logan Sanders
>implying you're serpentza
Cooper Turner
Yo user why the hell are you role-playing on my board
Alexander Clark
>the owner of a large puplication vs individual
are you trolling? i can really not tell if you are that stupid or trolling.
Jason Ward
>Dress like a slut willingly all the time >"Ughh like REEEeeeEEEEeeEEE stop slut shaming me you fucking pervert!"
I will never understand women.
Jacob Fisher
blame the maker ceo. if he just kept his dumbass mouth shut none of this would have happened
Connor Young
why is maker even a thing are they making money or are they just leeching off of investors?
Juan Martinez
Just another toilet.
Gavin Fisher
>Dat feel when nowdays you CAN make a career out of being a professional sjw.
Jonathan Richardson
Bitch should fucking learn how to properly spill a pint.
Jose Green
is anybody believing this shit? hahahaha once again, nobody questions her tech expertise what corporations question is her attire: they don't want to deal with that type of promotion, because she acts, looks and dresses like a pornstar
pic related, from Naomi's official youtube channel, during a tech related visit
Isaiah Turner
are here are real pornstars at a convention Naomi, if you are reading this: you are the one who is acting sexist, dressing as a sex worker in a non-sex related environment
Cooper Hughes
>I would actively avoid pictures that look like "Hi, I am a Playboy Bunny and the goal of posting this photo is to get you to fantasize about me while you masturbate.
Well, she failed on that account.
Liam Robinson
soy-latte coming right up
Levi Gray
what? are you calling me a soy boy for following society dress code? I would love to see if her videos got the same exposure if she looked like boogie2988 she is using sex as bait, and her projects are Ahmed-tier
Daniel Brooks
neck yourself
Brayden Hughes
The CEO of makezine wasn't wrong or misguided in thinking it's a persona, it is. She's using the "maker movement" as a sort of gimmick to get more attention. The only reason they're bending over backwards for her is because he accused her of being a front for someone else, which is an accusation with no real evidence. Sure, no ass and Timaz are affiliated in some way, but saying Timaz is using her as a front is slanderous
Mr.CEO should have kept his mouth shut until he found something a little more concrete tying timaz to flat ass.
Caleb Bailey
She is trying to dress properly now
Anthony Taylor
Actually read that in his voice, good job
Sebastian Watson
Do you think LadyAda had a word?
She loves Naomi.
Also I wonder why they want her on the cover.
Adrian Bennett
>she
Levi Edwards
That seems to only be because she was in Thailand and couldn't get away with the shit she normally wears.
I'm all for her usual outfits, love that specific kind of slutty shit she wears.
Gabriel Green
This is what feminazis actually believe.
Adrian White
>Also I wonder why they want her on the cover. they are pulling an Ahmed
Wyatt Reed
>Make Community gay
Alexander Taylor
>it's not about DIY anymore >it's about being diverse!!! Lovely world we live in, such a bright future.
Justin Kelly
Overalls is the objectively superior outfit.
Justin Clark
This
Adrian Perry
>local makers in China Is this soyim really saying that chinks are marginalised in fucking China? What an absolute joke
Nathaniel Lewis
Chinks don't trust other chinks.
Hunter Jackson
She's not pretty, but clearly fuckable.
I wouldn't have children with her in a million years, but I'm never going to say no to a thin waist and massive tits.
William Bennett
>also that whore isnt a "maker" shes a cyber prostitute. >nasty plastic gook bitch with an exhibitionism fetish.
This is such *.let gold
Cameron Parker
>with an exhibitionism fetish. What's wrong with that you prude burger?
Blake Phillips
This is a prime example of why men don't want women around in their business. They bring nothing but drama.
Blake Nelson
At first I thought this was referring to "Make" as in Makefiles, but it looks like just some random Chinese news outlet. I'm pretty surprised that the Chinese are willing to bend over and let themselves be assfucked by SJW nonsense, I always thought that they wouldn't tolerate such nonsense. Someone really needs to develop a cure to this SJW infestation that's spreading globally now.
Hunter Harris
What is the lesson we can learn from this controversy?
Nathaniel Edwards
No matter what you do or say, someone is going to get upset.
Eli Foster
I wanna understand one thing.
She wears a t-shirt (very small) saying "popular SLUT club". It's ok
But when someone say she's a slut who make tech videos, it's offensive.
Why you can't say she's a slut if she use a "proud slut shirt"?
Levi Torres
>Why you can't say she's a slut if she use a "proud slut shirt"? Because it's sexist!?