Meet the wogrammers – women in engineering
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Meet the wogrammers – women in engineering
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Re: Meet the wogrammers – women in engineering
#2Probably should have come up with a better name. The natural English syllabification of this is 'wog.ram.mers', rather than 'wo.gram.mers'. That's a barrel of worms you don't want to open!... Which is a shame, because such an initiative isn't one that should be pulled down because of something so superficial.
EDIT: The natural British English syllabification, where 'wog' is a derogatory racial slur.
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#3I initially thought it was something different: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wog
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#4"wogrammer" ?
Do we really need a word that exists purely to make the distinction between male and female programmers? Seems to me you're just a programmer, sex doesn't matter.
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#5This is getting more and more hilarous FFS. Will we have a special group for afroamerican women programmers ? Special group for mentally ill programmers ? Or what about vegan transgender programmers ? This kind of positive discrimination is really annoying and unfair. Using the right tool and right people should be free of all prejudices FFS
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#6I initially thought it was something different: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wog
Indeed. If one that expression, one wonders what the ramming is all about.
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#7Regardless of how HN might not like the name, this is brilliant. Part of the issue in tech is that especially learning women only ever hear in the news about the problems and downsides, which gives no incentive to head in that direction.
Addressing women directly and showing them successes of other women in the field is likely to be a successful approach in the long term to change demographics.
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#8Probably should have come up with a better name. The natural English syllabification of this is 'wog.ram.mers', rather than 'wo.gram.mers'. That's a barrel of worms you don't want to open!... Which is a shame, because such an initiative isn't one that should be pulled down because of something so superficial. EDIT: The natural British English syllabification, where 'wog' is a derogatory racial slur.
In my mind, strangely, it came out as "woeful programmers" - "women" didn't even occur to me.
Obviously this name is every bit as bad as the execrable "brogrammers".
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#9Probably should have come up with a better name. The natural English syllabification of this is 'wog.ram.mers', rather than 'wo.gram.mers'. That's a barrel of worms you don't want to open!... Which is a shame, because such an initiative isn't one that should be pulled down because of something so superficial. EDIT: The natural British English syllabification, where 'wog' is a derogatory racial slur.
The intended pronunciation came naturally for me. I don't think it's an issue.
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#10Nice, creating a word specially for female developers. Way to create inclusion folks. How is it supposed to help people see 'programmers' as 'programmers' regardless of their gender?
Can we invent words for Atheist programmers, for asian transgender programmers, for black programmers who identify as dolphins?
And I won't even comment on the whole "wow! Women programmers! They are all awesome!! xoxo". Some female programmers are great, some are terrible, most are average. Just like male programmers. Stopping this pedestalizion is the first step towards true equality.