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This reads and looks like it was written by a teenager. Quite ironic that it is preaching professionalism. Edit: I did not mean this as "only girls are unpro
by lightbyte 9y ago
This reads and looks like it was written by a teenager. Quite ironic that it is preaching professionalism.
Edit: I did not mean this as "only girls are unprofessional" so I removed that part. Teenage boys are equally as unprofessional, but I don't think they express it in the exact same way. If this was filled with dick jokes and the like I would have written "teenage boy".
- jeremy7600 9y agoDid you get this far? This explains a bit: "Trust me I know this already. I’m like barely 22."
- zucked 9y agoThe second sentence there feels like it's missing a set of commas for, like, emphasis.
- a13n 9y agoSorry, what about being a girl conveys unprofessionalism?
- jeremy7600 9y ago"teenage" girls aren't the height of professionalism, I think was the thrust there. The use of the word "like" frequently denotes this. Nothing wrong with girls, period. But teenagers aren't looked up to as the paragons of professionalism.
- a13n 9y agoAre teenage boys the height of professionalism? I think the gender comment is unnecessary, irrelevant, and harmful.
- jbeja 9y agoStop trolling around SJW.
- kentrado 9y agoOh, come off it already. It is clear what he meant, you are just trying really hard to be offended by something.
- khazhoux 9y agoThis was so unprofessional, it's like it was written by a black teenager! ...is that better? Or is it more obvious now that the original comment was an insult to girls?
- peterwwillis 9y agoNo, it was unnecessarily sexist and demeaning.
- delphinius81 9y agoYes it was clear the poster was being derogatory to girls. It's also clear you are trying to normalize and justify such behavior. Both are unnecessary.
- tdfx 9y agoThere are negative traits about both teenage boys and teenage girls. The writing style more closely matches teenage girls in this instance, so that's why the connection was made. Sexism exists in tech but this is not it.
- fergyfresh 9y agoClearly the poster was talking about the excessive use of `like` which he deems as the typical vocabulary of a teenage girl which is what you're attempting to be upset by. It had nothing to do with teenage boys being significantly more professional than teenage girls, or anything of the sort.
- scriptkiddy 9y agoYou're making a mountain out of a molehill.
- snerbles 9y agoNot to mention the wacky animated GIFs every other paragraph.
- mrisoli 9y agoWell, those are all content marketing techniques, GIFs and casual language speak to the author's target demographic I suppose.
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- scandox 9y agoThis is a fair comment and I don't think it ought to be downvoted. It should have been "teenager" - that's not a criticism of the original commenter - but I think something worth correcting.
- ProAm 9y agoThe animated gifs are a nice touch saying "I have no idea what Im talking about but have feelings too"
- khazhoux 9y agoAs another commenter pointed out, this off-hand comment is harmful to girls. In my own experience growing up, girls were just as "professional" (if that can apply to teenagers) as boys. They were serious, thoughtful, ambitious, and worked hard in school. Now I'm older and my friends have kids, and their girls are going to Maker Faires, studying hard, etc. We should not accept the meme of a "teenage girl" being a silly thing that doesn't know how to behave right, because it's just not true.
- jachee 9y agoYour comment reads like it was written by the kind of person who'd blow off a meeting with a potential designer hire 4 times.
- peterwwillis 9y agoI'm pretty sure teenage girls can make more professional posts than this. (Also, thanks for the sexism?)
- swat535 9y agoThis sort of attitude sexist attitude towards women is exactly why our industry is in such state. You are basically echoing the idea that women = unprofessional at such a young age. We certainly do not want our teen girls to grow up believing that they are viewed as unprofessional in our industry.