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I think I'm missing where the friction is in dropping your credentials? You don't have to storm in and say, "Do you know who I am??!". Isn't it easy and actuall

• ebiester 14y ago
  The issue is that as a man, you don't have to. I know it seems weird, but as men we have a blind spot -- there's a lot of bullshit we have to deal with, but there's a lot of bullshit we don't have to deal with by the mere fact that we'r male. Women in technical fields (and nearly every woman in tech whom I've befriended mentions this) get subtle cues that men don't even notice, because we're not the target. (Worst yet is that women have a tendency to do it to each other as well!) It's as if you have the bozo bit dropped on you before you've spoken a word, and you're continually fighting an uphill battle.
  • cs02rm0 14y ago
    Hmmn. It's just an odds game isn't it? Our sales guy came to a conference and between the talks was desperate for people to talk about something other than code, anything else. And everyone seemed happy to oblige once aware. Seems to me like these are just examples of people taking branch prediction optimisations.
• DucktourDreams 14y ago
  Thank you for succinctly stating what I used 9,000 words above to say. Sure, thanks to discretely-dressed marketing ladies, the author's life has become "harder than it used to be." She can no longer count on being on oddity. It was great while it lasted. Now, she can learn to introduce herself just like everyone else...