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The author falls into no such category, having clearly made a considerable contribution already. You've missed the point of the article. It doesn't set out to

The author falls into no such category, having clearly made a considerable contribution already. You've missed the point of the article. It doesn't set out to answer your quoted question with some faux-positive ra-ra laundry list of women's writing. Instead it unasks the question. On the other hand, you've exhibited a classic indicator of unconscious bias by assuming that a woman was complaining. Especially when, as in this case, she clearly isn't.

rcfox 14y ago
> On the other hand, you've exhibited a classic indicator of unconscious bias by assuming that a woman was complaining. Especially when, as in this case, she clearly isn't. "complain: to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief" If people can't disagree with you without being accused of bias at the drop of a hat, then we can't have a true discussion.
- inopinatus 14y ago
  I'm not sure why you're supplying a definition of "complain" except to confirm my point? Because none of those things are present in the OP. Recognising bias is important in gender discussions. It doesn't provide many truths but it reveals the falsehoods.
clockstrikesten 14y ago
The stereotype is primarily accepted by two groups of males: 1. Men who believe women do not succeed in the tech world due to social pressures 2. Men who believe women do not succeed in the tech world due to differences that are genetic in nature For the second group, author Amber Yust only fuels the fire of the stereotype, because she was born a man. For the first group, using herself as an example of a woman succeeding in the tech world is invalid, because she was a man for most of her life and benefitted from all the consequent privileges. I find it dumbfounding that she wrote this article.
- roguecoder 14y ago
  She is not presenting a story of "a woman succeeding in the tech world"; she is presenting a story of how everyone assumes anyone who writes a tech article is male. It is like the New York Times saying, "men invented the Internet", or all the people who have written, "Why are there no women programmers?" There are women programmers (22% in the US according to the Department of Labor.) There were women involved in the creation of the net (8% of RFC 1336). Just because there is not equal representation no excuse for erasing those that do exist. If you mentally turn everyone male unless they are speaking about gender it is unfair to then turn around and complain that women only ever speak about gender. When you were listening to them talk about other things it wasn't that they were men, it was that you assumed they were. That is all about you, and has nothing to do with the cis* status of the people pointing it out.

rcfox 14y ago

> On the other hand, you've exhibited a classic indicator of unconscious bias by assuming that a woman was complaining. Especially when, as in this case, she clearly isn't. "complain: to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief" If people can't disagree with you without being accused of bias at the drop of a hat, then we can't have a true discussion.

inopinatus 14y ago
I'm not sure why you're supplying a definition of "complain" except to confirm my point? Because none of those things are present in the OP. Recognising bias is important in gender discussions. It doesn't provide many truths but it reveals the falsehoods.

clockstrikesten 14y ago

The stereotype is primarily accepted by two groups of males: 1. Men who believe women do not succeed in the tech world due to social pressures 2. Men who believe women do not succeed in the tech world due to differences that are genetic in nature For the second group, author Amber Yust only fuels the fire of the stereotype, because she was born a man. For the first group, using herself as an example of a woman succeeding in the tech world is invalid, because she was a man for most of her life and benefitted from all the consequent privileges. I find it dumbfounding that she wrote this article.

roguecoder 14y ago
She is not presenting a story of "a woman succeeding in the tech world"; she is presenting a story of how everyone assumes anyone who writes a tech article is male. It is like the New York Times saying, "men invented the Internet", or all the people who have written, "Why are there no women programmers?" There are women programmers (22% in the US according to the Department of Labor.) There were women involved in the creation of the net (8% of RFC 1336). Just because there is not equal representation no excuse for erasing those that do exist. If you mentally turn everyone male unless they are speaking about gender it is unfair to then turn around and complain that women only ever speak about gender. When you were listening to them talk about other things it wasn't that they were men, it was that you assumed they were. That is all about you, and has nothing to do with the cis* status of the people pointing it out.