My Apology to Naomi Wu and the Make Community

makezine.com/2017/11/19/apology-to-naomi-wu/

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.

Other urls found in this thread:

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15736267
michelerebooted.blogspot.com/2017/11/how-i-try-to-direct-attention-as-woman.html
archive.is/GE0he
youtube.com/watch?v=PZmtyvZHeNM
twitter.com/NSFWRedditImage

Literally who?

miss big fake tits and an inverted ass

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.

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.

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

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

>apologizing to a plastic bug woman
what the fuck is wrong with this guy

I just taped an led and a battery to a tank top. Who do I talk to about booking my flight to the US?

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.

I want that slut to rub her titities on my face and I want to rub my cock on her tits

do you want her to open bobs too? calm down pajeet

> 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

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.

>I want that slut to rub her padded bra on my face and I want to rub my cock on her bra
ftfy

>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.

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"

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.

Can you post the links?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15736267

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?

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.

> fake apology to a fake maker with fake tits
poetic, in a way

I meant the links from the bottom post in your image but its alright I found them

MZ some woman user HN
michelerebooted.blogspot.com/2017/11/how-i-try-to-direct-attention-as-woman.html

Just rant over maker girl.

>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."

Some feminist will rant over her...

The fuck is a "maker" lol? And why the hell would anyone invest their time into reading into any of this bullshit?

A person who 3d prints boxes and puts raspberry pis in them

>there are guys who think she is hot

The whole maker community thing is bullshit anyway. It's just people 3d printing shitty toys and sometimes slappibg leds on them.

is she a ladyboy?

>and the over-representation of foreign-born makers
Why aren't Americans allowed to protest the over representation of pajeets and chinks?

We could but we're just all giant pussies that would rather be cucked than called racist.

Do you think talking in that way helps your cause?

>makers

They should gas anyone who calls themselves that

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)

requesting the link to the 'conspiracy theory'

this

archive.is/GE0he

>diversity audit
>free plane tickets
>free story in a magazine
>to be part of any advisory board
>free free free

youtube.com/watch?v=PZmtyvZHeNM

>maker movement

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.

((()))

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.

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.

>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

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

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.

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.

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

>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.

>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.

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.

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!

>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.

>what the fuck is wrong with this guy
maybe he wants to share some bbc with the bug woman?

open bob and show pines dirty man :D

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.

>Naomi Wu

Oh fuck, I didn't expect to see her on Sup Forums.

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

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

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

haha maybe you shouldnt marry a fucking chink and someone white you god damn race mixing piece of shit

>implying you're serpentza

Yo user why the hell are you role-playing on my board

>the owner of a large puplication vs individual

are you trolling? i can really not tell if you are that stupid or trolling.

>Dress like a slut willingly all the time
>"Ughh like REEEeeeEEEEeeEEE stop slut shaming me you fucking pervert!"

I will never understand women.

blame the maker ceo. if he just kept his dumbass mouth shut none of this would have happened

why is maker even a thing
are they making money or are they just leeching off of investors?

Just another toilet.

>Dat feel when nowdays you CAN make a career out of being a professional sjw.

Bitch should fucking learn how to properly spill a pint.

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

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

>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.

soy-latte coming right up

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

neck yourself

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.

She is trying to dress properly now

Actually read that in his voice, good job

Do you think LadyAda had a word?

She loves Naomi.

Also I wonder why they want her on the cover.

>she

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.

This is what feminazis actually believe.

>Also I wonder why they want her on the cover.
they are pulling an Ahmed

>Make Community
gay

>it's not about DIY anymore
>it's about being diverse!!!
Lovely world we live in, such a bright future.

Overalls is the objectively superior outfit.

This

>local makers in China
Is this soyim really saying that chinks are marginalised in fucking China? What an absolute joke

Chinks don't trust other chinks.

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.

>also that whore isnt a "maker" shes a cyber prostitute.
>nasty plastic gook bitch with an exhibitionism fetish.

This is such *.let gold

>with an exhibitionism fetish.
What's wrong with that you prude burger?

This is a prime example of why men don't want women around in their business. They bring nothing but drama.

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.

What is the lesson we can learn from this controversy?

No matter what you do or say, someone is going to get upset.

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"?

>Why you can't say she's a slut if she use a "proud slut shirt"?
Because it's sexist!?