Elly Loelfacts 🗣️🗣️🗣️
say it louder for the mfers in the back
Benjamin Geer@elly @Gouximan @shibbles That’s a very good insight. When I worked at a web shop in the 90s, all the developers were male and all the graphic designers were female. Were HTML and CSS stigmatised as feminine early on, and was JavaScript appealing to male developers precisely because it helped them avoid what they saw as women’s work?
maco@benjamingeer @elly @Gouximan @shibbles that’s what I’ve been saying since JS frameworks took off.
Web was definitely “girl stuff” until then. Trying to avoid the “girl stuff” pigeonhole might be part of why I did OS stuff for years.
@maco @elly @Gouximan @shibbles This is reminding me of @histoftech's account of how programming went from being seen as a women's job to being seen as a men's job in the UK. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262535182/programmed-inequality/