[3pt14159]

Are you a woman in tech?

The reason that I ask is that your account is pretty new and this seems a little bit like stowing up discord on social media.

Regardless. There is a difference between a beautiful woman that can code (these are actually getting more and more prevalent) and the trashy looking profile picture that all of us instantly know is some kind of spammer or scammer in our DMs or our inbox.

The fact that they're portrayed as woman has more to do with the loneliness of many men in tech than anything else and pretending that this type of behaviour is non-existent is childish when it's clear that places like LinkedIn and Twitter could do a lot more to detect it and prevent it.

[teux]

Yes? I just migrated from reddit.

Read my comments. I have been discussing my job in Europe and my work with vectorised optimisations.

Seems like a lot of work for sowing discord, but you make the call.

[3pt14159]

Well I'll take you at your word then. Be aware that new accounts or accounts without much comment history are treated with more suspicion on HN when they discuss hot button issues like gender or politics.

> It’s toxic as fuck. Being a woman in tech blows. You can’t be pretty or you’re considered incompetent and shallow. You can’t be ugly or you’re treated poorly for that.

One of the best programmers I've ever worked with was a woman. Former Google. I'd prefer not to discuss how attractive she is because it doesn't matter to me. I'm sorry you're having a rough time in Scandinavia and, from your comment history, formerly the USA. I've worked with non-aggressive teams from different places, but I've also observed women being mistreated in both Canada and the USA as well.

That said, I've seen ASD men mistreated as well. Unfortunately there are jerks out there and we can all try to do better.