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Re: So a female programmer walks into a bar…

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Post by freerobby »

mindcrime wrote: post #19

“you’re a chick, leave this crap to REAL developers”. I really don't understand guys who say (or think) shit like this. Honestly, it annoys me not so much because it's sexist, or misogynistic, or bigoted or whatever, but rather because it's fucking stupid . I've been doing this stuff professional for around 20 years now, and I've worked with oodles of female programmers over the years, and I've never seen any reason…

Yes! When I read quotes like this I often wonder if they are literal quotations or if they're summary interpretations -- not because I distrust those who cite them but because it's so foreign and absurd a thing to say that it's hard to fit into my mental model of human behavior.

Re: So a female programmer walks into a bar…

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mindcrime wrote: post #19

“you’re a chick, leave this crap to REAL developers”. I really don't understand guys who say (or think) shit like this. Honestly, it annoys me not so much because it's sexist, or misogynistic, or bigoted or whatever, but rather because it's fucking stupid . I've been doing this stuff professional for around 20 years now, and I've worked with oodles of female programmers over the years, and I've never seen any reason…

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Re: So a female programmer walks into a bar…

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Post by tootie »

It's kinda sad that she has to call out Netguru as someplace safe for women. Honestly, I think it's just a bit of moral panic brought on by a few high profile stories. I've been in and out of a lot of organizations and never witnessed female colleagues being given a hard time. A few instances of creepy guy behavior, but I've also seen guys get bothered by creepy gay guy behavior. That's not unique to the programmer world at least.

Re: So a female programmer walks into a bar…

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Post by protonfish »

mindcrime wrote: post #19

“you’re a chick, leave this crap to REAL developers”. I really don't understand guys who say (or think) shit like this. Honestly, it annoys me not so much because it's sexist, or misogynistic, or bigoted or whatever, but rather because it's fucking stupid . I've been doing this stuff professional for around 20 years now, and I've worked with oodles of female programmers over the years, and I've never seen any reason…

I think you are being distracted by the content of the comment. This kind of nonsense has nothing to do with sexism. (Or if it were racist it has nothing to do with racism, or any other types of 'isms.) Some people are simply cruel, angry, sadistic bullies and the internet gives them the anonymity to get away with it. The reason for the comment was only to hurt.

Re: So a female programmer walks into a bar…

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Post by mgkimsal »

devgutt wrote: post #26
mindcrime wrote: post #19

“you’re a chick, leave this crap to REAL developers”. I really don't understand guys who say (or think) shit like this. Honestly, it annoys me not so much because it's sexist, or misogynistic, or bigoted or whatever, but rather because it's fucking stupid . I've been doing this stuff professional for around 20 years now, and I've worked with oodles of female programmers over the years, and I've never seen any reason…

This is an easy way, especially if you don't have any arguments, to diminish other people. Doesn't matter the gender. If one was a guy, the other one would say "you're a PHP developer, leave this crap to REAL developers". This is not sexist, it's just plain stupid, as you said.

I had ColdFusion developers make fun of me for using PHP a few years back. ColdFusion. Yep.

Re: So a female programmer walks into a bar…

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Post by theop »

pestaa wrote: post #6
unfamiliar wrote: post #3

What a creative job advertisement.

Honestly I was expecting a little more meat in the article, and it turned out not to be primarily an article. On the other hand, I'd love to work with female programmers more. The one I had the pleasure to work with had good insight, took care of legacy code like only a mother can, and documented every wtf line tenfold. There might be tasks men are genetically more suited to, but women could also bring a lot to the t…

there are jobs where men are genetically more suited for but we don't have to hunt bare hands anymore so it's not a big problem nowadays

Re: So a female programmer walks into a bar…

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Post by jbeja »

Rolling my eyes the whole post. Is overly dramatic for something so mundane, and to be honest i don't even believe it.

“you’re a chick, leave this crap to REAL developers”.

Who say stupid thing like this on this day of age or even get dramatic when someone say that to you?. Please give yourself some pride, you are better than this.

Re: So a female programmer walks into a bar…

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Post by mhurron »

lmm wrote: post #39
mindcrime wrote: post #19

“you’re a chick, leave this crap to REAL developers”. I really don't understand guys who say (or think) shit like this. Honestly, it annoys me not so much because it's sexist, or misogynistic, or bigoted or whatever, but rather because it's fucking stupid . I've been doing this stuff professional for around 20 years now, and I've worked with oodles of female programmers over the years, and I've never seen any reason…

So at what point have you worked with enough women to be allowed to make inferences? At what point do you stop trusting what you've read on the internet and start going by your own experience? Because thinking back over all the people I've programmed with or inherited a codebase from[1], the average female programmer was significantly worse than the average male programmer (which is not to say that I haven't also wor…

White men can't play basketball. Japanese people are good at math. Black men just aren't as intelligent.

What you said is just as stupid, also you just did this:

https://xkcd.com/385/

Re: So a female programmer walks into a bar…

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Post by muglug »

hawkharris wrote: post #32

Have you ever noticed that HN posts concerning gender discrimination tend to attract hundreds of comments? That's not intrinsically bad. What's questionable is the quality of the comments. It seems that almost all the remarks on this page are drawn from opinion or personal anecdotes. Don't get me wrong... personal stories can be interesting and insightful; it's just that, in most discussion threads, HN tends to balan…

Why the need to explicitly police the discussion? Doesn't HN's system of up-and-down votes already accomplish that?
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