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I posted this quote here because I thought it didn't need explanation as a criticism of the blog post. But perhaps I need to point it out... "He". We should n

by derrida 13y ago

I posted this quote here because I thought it didn't need explanation as a criticism of the blog post. But perhaps I need to point it out... "He". We should not, implicitly or explicitly, promote the idea that to be a coder you are a man. Even if it is the case that more men are in CS than not, it is not causal to success in CS. However, creating fake self-doubt and questioning on issues that are not material to success in CS is causal to people dropping CS.

tg3 13y ago
"He" is commonly used as a gender neutral way of referring to a person of unknown gender. It has also become common to use "she" as gender neutral so as to not be exclusive. I don't think that in this case the author is making any comment (explicitly or implicitly) about who is or should be coding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He#Gender_neutral http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He#Gender_neutral