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What is "tech bro"? Is that like... denigrating a person based on their gender... ?
by blahblah1234567 4y ago
What is "tech bro"?
Is that like... denigrating a person based on their gender... ?
- meghan_rain 4y agoYes, ridiculous that this is allowed here, and I say this as a girl. @dang?
- blahblah1234567 4y agoThe irony is that the same author, Emma Haslett, recently wrote an article about women facing increasing child-care costs. https://www.newstatesman.com/business/2023/03/childcare-costs-fail-mothers-economy-women?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1678288885-2 https://www.newstatesman.com/business/2023/03/childcare-cost... In her lefthand (main thread article): Denigrates men interested in technology jobs which pay well and are intellectually arduous to even learn let alone practice. In her righthand (article I link to above): Complains that women need more money for childcare. Gee, it's almost as though left-leaning journalists are trying to drive men and women apart. "Men, as a woman, I tell you: You're terrible! Now go fund women's lifestyles, we need your money!"
- joseph_grobbles 4y ago[dead]
- smcl 4y ago[flagged]
- GlacierFox 4y agoRidiculous that the phrase 'tech bro' is allowed here? Why wouldn't it be allowed here? It's ridiculous the things people try and censor...
- blahblah1234567 4y agoNo, it's the non-Maoist stuff that dang & HN mods censor. If you call out neon hair safe space ("leftist") hypocrisy... your comment is flagged within minutes.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoLately, my response to calls to censor 'this one thing' is 'ban everything' and skip all the baby steps. At least then people will immediately realize what is actually bad about word prohibition.
- bigbillheck 4y agoCan you give examples of Maoist posting on HN? By which I mean actual Maoism, not just general leftism.
- meghan_rain 4y agoWhy should it be allowed? It discriminated based on gender. Or are you ok with that when it's against men?
- Colex 4y agoIt would take me a huge mental effort to read "tech bros" as a discrimination based on gender - and I'm a man. They are talking about a few selected guys and decided to call them as tech bros - it's not calling for discrimination against men. No need to take it further, censor, ban. (Note: I don't care if it's "tech bro" or "tech gal" - not everything is about indoctrination)
- meghan_rain 4y agoIt should simply be "tech person". There are female founders, too.
- xdennis 4y ago
- foldr 4y agoIt's in the title of the article. HN guidelines for comments presumably don't apply to articles. (It wouldn't be good for me to call another HNer a 'tech bro', but we can discuss an article that uses the phrase, no?)
- yeahsure22 4y ago[flagged]
- anon291 4y agoTech bros are not just white brah; why do you assume that?
- blahblah1234567 4y ago[flagged]
- dang 4y agoWe've banned this account for repeatedly posting flamewar comments and using HN primarily for ideological battle. Those things aren't what this site is for, and destroy what it is for. We ban accounts that do this (yes, regardless of which ideology you are battling for or against). Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- xdennis 4y ago> I think cis white males This article is literally about Peter Thiel, who is gay, not cis.
- lkbm 4y agoI don't want to weigh in on this debate in general, but just to clarify terminology: "Gay" is orthogonal to "cis". "Cis" is short for "cisgendered", meaning "not transgendered". "Cishet" (cisgendered + heterosexual) is used to combine the two axes, which may be what led to the confusion.
- kentm 4y agoGay people can be cis. Cis describes gender identity vs biological sex not sexuality.
- lewisflude 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brogrammer#:~:text=%22Brogrammer%22%20or%20%22tech%20bro,portmanteau%20of%20bro%20and%20programmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brogrammer#:~:text=%22Brogramm....
- blahblah1234567 4y ago""Brogrammer" or "tech bro" are slang terms often used to label a stereotypically masculine programmer. " I've only ever known one masculine programmer, out of dozens I've met. Programming is a sedentary & solitary activity. It doesn't seem to attract masculine, sex-god type males. If anything, it's the opposite scenario.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoI’ve never thought the term had anything to do with masculinity - unless it’s the toxic kind.
- naxvb 4y agoI don't know the current usage, but historically this seems off. When these terms arose, they referred to programmers who relied on cliques, marketing and hype as opposed to great software engineering. The "move fast and break things" types who shout down opposition because they always outnumber the diligent quiet types. Who have their memes, foosball, beanbags, etc. Who were successful in SV because they didn't give a damn. Who then used DEI as a shield to progress politically. Who then set up crypto schemes under the "effective altruism" flag. So no, gender or masculinity is not central to the term. Complete lack of morals and deception is.
- blahblah1234567 4y agowhy is the term "bro" instead of "hoe"? Isn't "whore" more demonstrative of lack of morals, compared to "brother"? It's a silly conversation-- Clearly "tech bro" is misandrist. It enviously discounts men for success in technology, often while simultaneously expecting something from said men (such as emotional or financial support, again, while simultaneously insulting them... yeah, not productive).
- snozolli 4y ago[dead]
- hospitalJail 4y agoI've been calling my gym crew gymbros, despite half of them being female. I suppose I've not really thought about the gendered nature of it being short for brother. To me its like calling a group of people 'guys'.