[wakawaka28]

>I'm not a woman, but I faced this soooo many times in my career that now I believe that it's just insecure men feeling threatened by other people's knowledge or capabilities. Usually these people are hiding something and they are not as smart as perceived. Having someone in the room that can potentially unmask that makes them insecure.

Funny you mention this. The worst career experience I ever had was with a woman who was insecure about herself. She routinely gave me a hard time and butted heads with me on issues where I was actually right many times. By the way, she got promoted to be my manager (something that one more senior guy expected from the first time he met her years before). I wasn't the only one who couldn't stand her. Arrogance is not a uniquely or even predominantly masculine trait in this industry. It's a relatively common thing among programmers, especially young ones.

And if you're gonna blame the upper management for my experience, I've just gotta say that you are naive. They are the ones who put that woman in place and were biased in her favor. Nothing I could have said about her obnoxious behavior would have made a bit of difference. More likely than not, I would have been targetted for even more frustrating BS.

And if you're gonna accuse me of not liking women somehow, my current manager is a woman and she's one of the better ones I've had. I'm talking about the assumption that all toxic personalities are owned by men, and that women are inherently disadvantaged. They are not as a whole. In this industry, there is more variance among members of each gender than there is between genders. Men and women want different things out of life generally. But if you look at similar types of people, their gender hardly matters.