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Let's look at the numbers: 99% of open source developers are men (http://people.cs.umass.edu/~wallach/talks/2011-04-05_JHU.pdf http://people.cs.umass.edu/~wall
by omonra 13y ago
Let's look at the numbers:
99% of open source developers are men (http://people.cs.umass.edu/~wallach/talks/2011-04-05_JHU.pdf http://people.cs.umass.edu/~wallach/talks/2011-04-05_JHU.pdf). It appears that women just seem to have better use of their time than writing code for free :) (free seems to be the operative word - not use of gendered pronouns in open-source vs commercial software world)
So let's mutilate english language (which is what referring to one user as 'they' really is - let's be honest) for the sake of some percentage of 1% (and probably larger number of men who feel bad for these individuals) who are unhappy to see a gender pronoun.
Now - I am not saying that one way is better than the other. I merely want to frame the argument honestly.
- jeffrom 13y agoyeah, let's not think about _why_ 1% of open source devs are women. this is one of those ubiquitous cases in tech where "honesty" actually means "misogyny."
- omonra 13y agoI have a simpler explanation - women (and billions of other people who are not involved in open source programming - including myself) have better use of their time than write code for free. I actuall think that explaining any group not doing some activity by 'group is hated by people doing it' is just stupid. Minorities not into camping - racism. Women not into working for free - misogyny, etc.