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Your assertion that women "need special handholding and encouragement to succeed at software development" is insulting and distasteful. My mother and grandmoth
by josephspens 11y 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 11y agoCarefully re-read the parent comment and ask yourself if he was being truly serious.
- josephspens 11y agoIt'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 agoOP is being sarcastic.
- stevenmays 11y ago::Claps slowly:: This is positively the way to go.
- megaman22 11y agoI think your sarcasm chip must have burned out.