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by sandyarmstrong 4057 days ago
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?"