His black pants wearing bosses told him he'd built it without permission. Then they said only architects within the company could pitch features — and all the a

His black pants wearing bosses told him he'd built it without permission. Then they said only architects within the company could pitch features — and all the architects were wearing black pants ! "Clearly this is not a coincidence. It has nothing to do with this company just being dysfunctional and unwelcoming of individual initiatives or anything, no : this has got to be discrimination against people wearing blue pants like myself ! This would definitely never happen to my colleagues who prefer black pants. I'm sure you can find other stories of blue pants-wearing people like myself who at least once didn't get that promotion, and make a nice article about it with a catchy headline. Go to work, journalist !" Gender discrimination in tech might exist, but it will take more than anecdotal stories like these thrown together to establish causation. Any white male developer with some big corp experience will have experienced the frustrating situation described above. This is the control group, and it says your "gender" variable in that particular experiment is BS. Some white males never get "that" promotion either, I'm sure you can find enough of them to make a nice article about it. They just don't have the opportunity of blaming it on their genitals nor do they have support groups dedicated to them. The constant use of fallacies and sensationalism by well-meaning (and less well-meaning) feminists is doing a disservice to taking these issues seriously where they do exist, IMHO.