Like the rest of the things in the world, as programming knowledge and competency continues to become democratized and ubiquitous, these tendencies will change.

Like the rest of the things in the world, as programming knowledge and competency continues to become democratized and ubiquitous, these tendencies will change. The incredibly competent men who run the show in authoritarian ways that appeal only to men just like themselves will slowly give way to communities built on negotiation, respect, and compromise -- humans will be humans. Those who mutter the word feminism only in derisive tones will complain loudly as their world mutates, even as their own standards of normality and fairness change. This world of computers has been the domain of such men for a long time, for a lot of reasons, but the days of this sort of thing are numbered. Computers are too important.