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by lnenad 1070 days ago
So based on an opinion of one person or a very small number of them you write

> but one of them is definitely gender

Why is it so easy to blame something on sexism?

> macho big-swinging-dick alpha nerd tech bro, then that can involve performing genius via solo cowboy coding

This is such a small number of people that act like this and write shitty code because of it that it's not worth mentioning.

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I base that on my experience of decades in tech. I just included that blog post as a recently read example.

And it's easy to blame something on sexism because sexism is common. Explicit patriarchy was the default mode for our society going back thousands of years. My grandmother was born when women weren't allowed to vote. My mother wasn't allowed to get a credit card, something only outlawed in 1974. Marital rape wasn't fully outlawed until 1993.

And those are just the laws. The culture, as so often, lags behind them. There are a zillion evidences that patriarchy isn't dead. Certainly so in tech.