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You know what basically flawed everything, inducing these toxic behaviours? Just try to open any social network and navigate to Profiles of women related to co
by mister_hn 6y ago
You know what basically flawed everything, inducing these toxic behaviours?
Just try to open any social network and navigate to Profiles of women related to coding. As an example, Instagram is full of women in tech writing delightful content but have you seen their pictures? Most of them are in sexy poses, or with full-body perspective, where more sexual recalls are involved, rather than focussing on programming/tech in general. The same happens for TikTok or Facebook.
I think all of this free sexism could have been stopped if someone started focussing really on technical aspects, independently from sexual orientation/gender/race/whatever, rather than exacerbating the narcissism.
Internet, as long as you don't expose your face, allows you to build a powerful identity, which hasn't nothing to do with personal aspect, but with competence, or at least, it was supposed to work so, until someone went out and started posted those pics.
As a reference (just a few selection):
- https://www.instagram.com/coding_unicorn/ https://www.instagram.com/coding_unicorn/
- https://www.instagram.com/ioana.codes/ https://www.instagram.com/ioana.codes/
- https://www.instagram.com/tech.unicorn/ https://www.instagram.com/tech.unicorn/
- pmiller2 6y agoAlthough I am mightily confused about their use of Instagram as a blogging and resume-hosting platform, I have to say there is absolutely nothing "sexy" about any of the photos of these three women I could see, at all. Other than the fact that they happen to be conventionally attractive women, I don't see where you're getting this whole "sexy pics are undermining women in tech's credibility" angle.
- nicbou 6y agoIf you stalk the writer and scroll on their Instagram, you will find personal pictures that are very common among Instagram users. It's therefore their fault if you can't control yourself and act professionally? Because they're asking for it?
- mister_hn 6y agosure, but differently from common IG users, they write technical comments linked to those pictures. Am I acting unprofessionally or are they, just to catch likes, followers?
- silveroriole 6y agoI think these accounts are ridiculous and counterproductive. However, they’re obviously different from the type of content that the woman in this article posted. The conflation of the two is part of the problem; this woman cannot show her face in a funny video without being related to ‘sexy instagram posers’. Finding Instagram accounts of men flexing in their underwear while typing some HTML would be just as ludicrous but nobody would be saying “this is why we can’t take men seriously, they don’t focus on technical aspects”.
- collyw 6y agoIs anyone actually saying "we can't take women seriously" because of this? Maybe "I can't take this woman seriously", but then I didn't see any programming content on the first Instagram page linked, just an attractive woman.