> for interactions with other people in online spaces to be less destructive I have the exact opposite opinion, let’s confront them: real-life social spaces ar

> for interactions with other people in online spaces to be less destructive I have the exact opposite opinion, let’s confront them: real-life social spaces are toxic to me, and I seek refuge in computers, where you experience me. If we were a little less toxic to each others, maybe online wouldn’t be a high concentration of people retired from real life? - Real life has a dump of major problems that “social people” constantly refuse to fix. - And each time we bring them up, it’s the bane of your life, we get all the names, downvotes, exaggerations, parody, “we’re in $CURRENT_YEAR”, “Have you tried to man up?”, “You’re frustrated”, etc. - And the problem continues. Online, are you are just meeting with the people that are invisible to you in real life. The status of the scientific understanding today of gender imbalance in programming (excluding improper studies with doubtful scientific process) is that little boys end up in programming because it’s the only thing in the family which behaves expectedly, doesn’t sulk, calls mum, gets angry for expressing things as they are, retributes effort, etc. Making a little more room for boys in real life would also correct gender imbalance in IT. It may even make that fewer people in general go to IT and science in general, because they would be more satisfied with real-life interactions. Science would go slower, but people would be happier. It’s a tough path, but really one that upgrades the lives of millions. Do you want to take it?