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"most white cis straight men in tech seem to think" Is this an expression that automatically made sense to anyone? I had to look it up, and I think I learned
by yebyen 13y ago
"most white cis straight men in tech seem to think"
Is this an expression that automatically made sense to anyone? I had to look it up, and I think I learned that /cis/ is short for /cisgender/ or /cissexual/ which is something like a word for "never been gay, never even thought about it."
As a "straight white guy" I really had to struggle to read this post and interpret it without picturing the authors as the Womyn protesters from the movie PCU, all grown up and in serious business some years later. I am sure that a lot of women and men struggle to be taken seriously in their work, and having never been asked any of these questions, but simply from working in IT where you often are receiving a lot of questions even from higher-up people that are seemingly inane or obvious, I can sympathize with all of this.
I will defer to your experience since you have obviously started a business, and I have not, but having been just made the target of your message that "all of you people think just the same, and we /just can't wait/ to answer more of your dumb questions we've heard a hundred times before," I honestly don't have much to say to you now at all, or any remaining interest in helping you or hearing about your projects.
So, good job alienating at least 25% of the national population!