Are you a man who works in tech, writing code for a living? Do you work with women who do the same? Then you absolutely are at high risk of always assuming their code isn’t good enough… that you know more than they do, even when it’s their area of experience, even when they have years more experience than you do. Unless you are working to explicitly remove the sexism assumptions our society has drilled into you, you are also being sexist. That’s how culture works.
Please stop. Be introspective.
@jensimmons I do work with women, they write code, great code. They are nailing it and because of that we are a better team.
First lesson learned, many years ago: Diversity in software development should be mandatory. The more the marrier.
Who is the alpha in this scenario?
@brandon_lehtsko @jensimmons And immediately, you’re telling a professional of many years and someone piloting the worki large organizations that (parenthetically) they just don’t get it because its the way it is and you can’t change it.
Go look in a mirror, bub. It’s not Alphas but Assholes that are guilty of this.
@brandon_lehtsko @jensimmons
Here's the thing - the idea of an Alpha is a myth (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-alpha-wolf-idea-a-myth/) and all it does is perpetuate assholic behavior as a "ruling-class" benefit.
Which it is not.
PS: Developer here since 1994, thankyouverymuch.
It's one thing to be proud of your abilities, but it's another to use that to shut down others - in any form.
I have noticed the bias. I hate it. My wife is a programmer. She’s smarter than me. (This is not a better half joke; she had better test scores, grades, and regularly shows it on a daily basis). I still have the bias.
I’ve rarely had the chance to work with women engineers. So it‘s hard to confront and recognize this bias. I thought maybe I could follow more women programmers here to try to work on that. Does that seem like a positive step to you? I’m going to try.
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