Women in Programming Debate
The cluster centers on heated discussions about sexism, gender assumptions in coding, and the inclusion of women in tech, with commenters debating whether certain remarks or jokes are offensive to female programmers and sharing personal experiences.
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Seriously, dude? It's attitudes like that which makes women hesitant to become coders and computer engineers. It doesn't matter what's between a person's legs; just that a person can code, enjoys doing it, and knows what they're talking about.
Are there any pieces anywhere about comment gendering being an issue to female programmers? (My short googling failed me)
Why are you assuming it wasn't a female coder
Women can be misogynistic. Where are you getting your sense of the demographics of "most programmers," anecdata?
Sexual organs != gender. Gender is relevant because of the micro- and macro-level issues the programming community has in regards to letting women be a part of that community. That you get defensive when someone does good work to try and help women be a part of the programming community speaks a lot as to why women don't feel that many spaces are not safe for them in tech.
Hi,I have no idea if you are a woman or a man, but as a woman in tech, I feel compelled to reply.I appreciated this story. Not so much the comments attached to it on HN, but the story itself. If it got some guys thinking about how they would feel if this happened:"You don't look like a programmer! When did you get into computers? That's kinda hot..."Which has happened to me so many times I've lost count...usually followed closely by "Are you single?"If it gets guys to stop
Well, see, here's the difference, it counts how you see the glass, full or empty. From my point of view, and I assume theirs, that's simply a joke that most of you got serious.I was just asking for a female programmer to tell that she's having a problem with this, not a dude.Probably I haven't exposed my ideas in a correct and coherent way, but I am tired and english is not my main. But trust me, I know a lot of women that are programmers, at some I look up to, and those who aren't I try t
Female programmers should be outraged by this.
I'm a young woman in tech. I am happy to confirm that"since most young women aren't exactly excited to talk about code"is in fact some sexist bullshit.