that is just sad. yet so many will say sexism does not exist
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Pretty sure racism is also involved
Intersectionality
It's as if, like, if you are a woman, and also in a disfavoured racial category, like, where they, uh, have overlap? Where they meet? It's not the same as either one individually but its own, I guess nexus? I feel like there's a better word for this
There's a somewhat niche, but clever word for this particular combo - misogynoir
Coined by Moya Bailey in 2010
I think it's called a "double minority", but being a woman isn't really a minority tho (edit: not a minority in the context of being 50% of the human population) so I don't know if theres a better term than that.
I feel bad for people who are black, lesbian, neurodivergent, and trans-woman... like that's a quadruple minority.
but being a woman isn’t really a minority tho
It depends on the context. In a Victoria’s Secret fashion show? Yeah, probably not the minority. In a tech role, which women are systemically harassed and bullied out of pursuing? Yeah, women are probably a minority.
That's not what minority means in the sociological context. Volume is mathematical. Poor people are a minority and there's more of them than the 1%. Being a minority is about lack of power, prestige and property. And intersectionality is the more formal term, but 'double minority' gets the point across.
The term is "intersectionality". Conservatives really hated the term before they went all popeyed over "woke".
but being a woman isn't really a minority tho
They certainly are in computer science
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The funny thing is that in my experience female programmers usually have above average skills. I suspect it’s exactly because of this bias against women in tech. Where an average or below average dude can easily get by, this is much harder for women. As a result this bias acts as a kind of filter which results in female programmers being on average a little better than male programmers because all the average or below average ones get filtered out early.
I might add, in the hostile environment women may feel compelled to try harder at least to make a point. As in, "I'll show you what I can do".
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This is also common in the guitar community. Some women can shred like mofos, and here comes Jim-Bob McGraw saying their playing is tracked etc., ad nauseum
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Yeah, online gaming has all but confirmed to me that sexism is very alive and well.
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I was so glad we had a woman join our dev team some months ago. It's more fun, more relaxed and we are able to get better results as we just cover a wider area of skills. People gatekeeping programming to include only men are idiots.
That poor girl. My gf's only female teammate quit last month and i suggested she start grinding leetcode asap. Could you imagine being the only woman on a team? Pretty strong indicator that something is very wrong there.
It's the same thing with any kind of diversity. Not an expert, but anecdotally, it seems to work better if you start adding diversity at the top. At least people at the senior+ level are generally more comfortable being outliers.
If we want to reach parity, there's gotta be some only woman at first.
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Tbf, the original photo was already discounting her abilities. Saying "can program code" for a lead SWE is saying like "can do calculus" for a physicist.
In their defense, maybe the post was written by some journalist with no technical background at all and doesn't know the difference.
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You know what. Good on her. Proud of her doing what she loves. You go girl!
This is some good shit. As a white American male, I say: fuck sexism and racism. You go, girl.
can program code
Such a weird sentence
Some fragile male egos in this thread. Looking forward to your complaints about the Barbie movie. Sad and pathetic.
I don't know what you're talking about. For me the fragile egos are way down the thread, all massively downvoted. The absolute majority is supportive.
Not everybody's sorting by Top, friend. They're probably down there where you say they are though.
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A hello world in MIPS is impressive by itself.
I'd be impressed by anyone who could "Hello, world" in MIPS
Those guys are pathetic
It's annoying sometimes that people just assume that those who don't work in tech are completely clueless about tech.
It's also really funny to mess with people who assumes that.
Am I the only one that doesn't think it's a waste if a gorgeous person does modeling/acting? If I had a body people wanted to ogle I would be using that power 24/7 instead of sitting here in a shitty office under fluorescent lights pretending to care about work while they pretend to care about me.
She a boss fr
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