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The rebounding of casual toxic masculinity/macho-ism in Tech, as demonstrated in the title, makes me sad. As a stereotypical nerdy kid who got into computers in
by jonstewart 3y ago
The rebounding of casual toxic masculinity/macho-ism in Tech, as demonstrated in the title, makes me sad. As a stereotypical nerdy kid who got into computers in the 80s, I saw Tech as a refuge where who you were didn't matter nearly so much as what you could do.
To a large extent, I think the money to be made in Tech after 2009 has attracted kids to CS who in another time would have majored in business. The only saving grace is that the popularity of CS as a major seems to be drawing in talented women and minorities who haven't been exposed to programming.
- huytersd 3y ago[flagged]
- arnaudvalette 3y agoThree affirmations made from a borderline perspective, no arguments given. Macho-ism is a psychopathetical ideology, it's the worst part of being human. It's the reason of wars and absurd conflicts, and everything bad that has come from it. You don't need theories to conclude about its toxicity.
- argentier 3y agoThe reasons for war are rarely absurd, and are about groups competing for limited resources. Saying it's anything to do with 'macho-ism' (which is certainly nothing like an ideology, if it is anything at all) is smug feminist nonsense.
- arnaudvalette 3y agoI would love to hear a full analysis from your part on the question of "are the reasons of war absurd" because I am not convinced by your argument about "groups competing for limited resources" and honestly it felt like a clumsy generalization of some facts (which could be made-up). Well, macho-ism is an abstraction constructed/used in order to communicate about some system of ideas or ideals related to "having pride in one masculinity". I am not interested in discussing whether or not this is a cause of war or not (but obviously it is a cause of conflict). My previous comment was a parody of its parent (even if I tend to agree with what is said in it), the desired effect was to reveal how intensely absurd was the previously evoked " parent".
- argentier 3y agoYou asserted that the reasons for war were absurd, and you blamed 'macho-ism', which you didn't define. So you go: why are the reasons for wars so absurd? Was machoism the cause of Gulf War 2, or the Ukraine war, to give two recent examples?
- arnaudvalette 3y ago[flagged]
- honkycat 3y agoagreed, it is so pathetic. 99% of these "macho" people are just normal dudes who are pumped to the gills with propaganda. They have a pathetic need to convince as many people as possible that: 1. They aren't pathetic 2. You are. It has as much depth as talking to an edgy teenage boy.