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 You don't seem to understand how things work. This isn't a man vs woman thing, it is an alpha vs a not-alpha thing. There is nothing you can or ever will be able to do that can change this fact, and that's a fact.

@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.

@HollandJim @jensimmons and yes, I suppose you could think of someone as an Asshole too if they happen to have the alpha complex. I got along with the guy, had years of experience on him, taught him some tricks he didn't know, still, he had that complex. He can be an asshole sometimes. Then, can't we all?

@brandon_lehtsko @jensimmons

It's one thing to be proud of your abilities, but it's another to use that to shut down others - in any form.