| > I find that a bit unbelievable I find it unbelievable that you (or anyone) pays any attention to the gender of a programmer you only met online. > that show that the author is male I searched and couldn't find it. The closest I came is the name on github. > women in the tech community don't get the credit they deserve. Why do they deserve credit as women? Who cares if they are women? Give them credit for doing something as a human, not for their gender. > 'He', unfortunately, isn't a gender-neutral pronoun. Yes it is. The fact that you think it isn't is a discredit to your education. > So...the gender of another person only matters if you want to get into their pants? Or if you want to be close friends with them. Online it makes no difference. > It's really quite obvious that you don't respect whichever gender you are not. And yet you can't even tell which it is despite me writing about gender. (And no, I'm not going to tell you.) I ignore gender for things that have nothing to do with gender. There are plenty of things (including online) where gender matters, but programming isn't one of them. |
I didn't mean paying conscious attention to the gender - I was thinking of automatic assumptions people make about others. It's natural to make assumptions about people; it's immoral to pretend they don't exist or to object to reducing their effects.
> I searched and couldn't find it. The closest I came is the name on github.
Steven is a masculine name.
> Why do they deserve credit as women? Who cares if they are women? Give them credit for doing something as a human, not for their gender.
I entirely agree, however that doesn't stop people from making incorrect and broad generalisations about groups of people who share characteristics that are entirely out of their control.
> Yes it is. The fact that you think it isn't is a discredit to your education.
'He' is the unmarked pronoun but it's still gendered (i.e. masculine). 'It' isn't gendered, but is also generally used for inanimate objects rather than people.
> And yet you can't even tell which it is despite me writing about gender. (And no, I'm not going to tell you.)
Haha, only because I thought you would get angry if I made any assumptions about who you are.
> I ignore gender for things that have nothing to do with gender. There are plenty of things (including online) where gender matters, but programming isn't one of them.
Like I said before, I think that's cool, even if I find it a bit unbelievable that you don't make assumptions about people you meet online.