I work in IT and occasionally encounter super sexist people who want a man to fix their computers. I’m not rude to these people while on the phone with them and I make sure to be extra kind. I totally talk shit after hanging up though. Fuck anyone who thinks I can’t do my job because I’m a woman.

Most women in tech are not very good, because they have a life and more interests than debugging C code in the weekends. Stuff like actually talking to real people and taking showers and going outside once in a while.

So it’s not that they don’t think you cant do the job - it’s that their previous experiences have been that other women have been bad at their jobs. Now you suffer because of that.

Hang in there, prove them wrong and you will get respected even more than any guy.

I expect to be downvoted since it’s the truth. :)

Most women in tech are not very good

Citation needed.

Anyway you don’t have to be very good to be better than 95% of the population, because most people can barely operate outlook.

I also present the implication I have to be a super nerd to be good at IT. It’s not actually that hard, you just have to bother to read the instructions.

Sure. It’s always hard to know exactly what kind of skills we are even taking about here. IT is a huge area.

You don’t have to be a super nerd to be good at IT but you do have to read instructions and learn things, which means you are actually interested in it. That’s all it takes.

Most girls are not interested in those things so they become project managers or IT managers and other things that are more interesting to them. That’s my experience at least.