[mikecmpbll]

Yet more programmer/tech industry denigration propped up by completely unproven assertions.

Firstly most of this is based on the idea that as a programmer you are only either great or shit, and that this is somehow a problem of the industry rather than just being something entirely human and normal in ANY WALK OF LIFE (the best and the rest).

Secondly, there's this awful assertion that this purported industry problem has resulted in a less diverse industry. (What does that even mean, other ethnicities & women can't handle pressure as well as white men?)

  But imagine how frustrating it must be to be a woman with a decade of experience
  and have someone assume that she doesn't know what she is talking about.

^ This just comes out of nowhere, someone assuming that a woman programmer "doesn't know what she is talking about" is not related to any point he's made previously.

[sandyarmstrong]

It's not out of nowhere. The context is very clear in the video, and in the article it's just a few paragraphs earlier:

> When we see someone who does not look like one of those three men, we assume they are not a real programmer, he said. Almost all of the women he knows in the industry have a story about someone assuming they aren't a programmer. He talked to multiple women attending PyCon 2015 who were asked which guy they are there with—the only reason they would come is because their partner, the man, is the programmer. "If you're a dude, has anyone ever asked you that?"