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This article is problematic. It's common knowledge that women need special handholding and encouragement to succeed at software development as well as a shield

This article is problematic. It's common knowledge that women need special handholding and encouragement to succeed at software development as well as a shield wall of allies to fend off constant microaggressions, so we have to ask, in the most nonjudgmental way possible, why the author is so obviously acting against her own interests. [Edit: /s]

josephspens 12y ago
Your assertion that women "need special handholding and encouragement to succeed at software development" is insulting and distasteful. My mother and grandmother were both software engineers at IBM, at a time where the male dominated tech culture was MUCH worse than it is today, and they both did really well. My boss, a woman, is arguably the best software engineer at our company. Women don't need handholding. They need incentive. They need to be exposed to tech culture. Lowering the bar for women and putting them on a pedestal for showing up does a great injustice to women like my mother and grandmother who, despite working in a culture which heavily discriminated against women, became kick-ass engineers.
- jff 12y ago
  Carefully re-read the parent comment and ask yourself if he was being truly serious.
  - josephspens 12y ago
    It's not obvious, I've heard similar remarks from people who genuinely believe it.
- Kalium 11y ago
  > Your assertion that women "need special handholding and encouragement to succeed at software development" is insulting and distasteful. Please, please for the love of root do not use rhetoric like this. It's hollow posturing that offers nothing beyond scolding someone for the sin of not agreeing with you. Being insulting is not the same as being wrong. Being distasteful is not the same as being wrong. Only one thing is the same as being wrong, and that's being wrong. I know this is an insulting, disrespectful, and distasteful thing to say... but being offended does not make you right. So I have a question for you: why did you write the first line of your comment?
- flinty 11y ago
  OP is being sarcastic.
- stevenmays 11y ago
  ::Claps slowly:: This is positively the way to go.
- megaman22 11y ago
  I think your sarcasm chip must have burned out.
venomsnake 12y ago
are you using Poe's law?
- ElComradio 11y ago
  Apparently unintentionally :)
  - venomsnake 11y ago
    Put an /s at the end. Usually hints.
10098 11y ago
Apparently, people who voted on this comment have lost the ability to understand sarcasm.
- tolkienfanatic 11y ago
  I'm pretty sure people are voting on this BECAUSE it is sarcastic

josephspens 12y ago

Your assertion that women "need special handholding and encouragement to succeed at software development" is insulting and distasteful. My mother and grandmother were both software engineers at IBM, at a time where the male dominated tech culture was MUCH worse than it is today, and they both did really well. My boss, a woman, is arguably the best software engineer at our company. Women don't need handholding. They need incentive. They need to be exposed to tech culture. Lowering the bar for women and putting them on a pedestal for showing up does a great injustice to women like my mother and grandmother who, despite working in a culture which heavily discriminated against women, became kick-ass engineers.

jff 12y ago
Carefully re-read the parent comment and ask yourself if he was being truly serious.
- josephspens 12y ago
  It's not obvious, I've heard similar remarks from people who genuinely believe it.
Kalium 11y ago
> Your assertion that women "need special handholding and encouragement to succeed at software development" is insulting and distasteful. Please, please for the love of root do not use rhetoric like this. It's hollow posturing that offers nothing beyond scolding someone for the sin of not agreeing with you. Being insulting is not the same as being wrong. Being distasteful is not the same as being wrong. Only one thing is the same as being wrong, and that's being wrong. I know this is an insulting, disrespectful, and distasteful thing to say... but being offended does not make you right. So I have a question for you: why did you write the first line of your comment?
flinty 11y ago
OP is being sarcastic.
stevenmays 11y ago
::Claps slowly:: This is positively the way to go.
megaman22 11y ago
I think your sarcasm chip must have burned out.

venomsnake 12y ago

are you using Poe's law?

ElComradio 11y ago
Apparently unintentionally :)
- venomsnake 11y ago
  Put an /s at the end. Usually hints.

10098 11y ago

Apparently, people who voted on this comment have lost the ability to understand sarcasm.

tolkienfanatic 11y ago
I'm pretty sure people are voting on this BECAUSE it is sarcastic