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.
@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.
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