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It's easy to say that we're all one group if you're in the dominant group...

• yummyfajitas 11y ago
  You presuppose that gender/racial/identity politics groupings are the natural one. They aren't. I do find this easy to say, in spite of the fact that my company has exactly 1 other person of my race (out of 100+) [1]. Though I am in the other "dominant group" (engineering)... [1] This has been the case for most of my career, and my life was not significantly different in the few cases when it wasn't true.
• tomp 11y ago
  I hope you're not serious. I'm a geek, mind and body. Most of my life (school, high school, sports, socializing, university) I was part of the marginalized, made fun of, or outright abused groups. Incidentally, many women had it a lot better that I (they were popular, attractive, outgoing, talkative, ...). Just because some of us (programmers) managed to unexpectedly strike gold (in this economy) doesn't make us "dominant" in most areas of life.
  • bayesianhorse 11y ago
    It's not about "dominance in most areas of life" but rather in a team of developers or communities of developers. Programming is still lucrative enough for most people that they chose this over the job they were originally trained for. That is one of the reasons (and not the only one) women want to be part of such groups, and there they are the minority. Also my perception is not that development teams are necessarily "dominated" by nerds. It's a cliche which is often wrong.