that is just sad. yet so many will say sexism does not exist
Pretty sure racism is also involved
Intersectionality
It’s as if, like, if you are a woman, and also in a disfavoured racial category, like, where they, uh, have overlap? Where they meet? It’s not the same as either one individually but its own, I guess nexus? I feel like there’s a better word for this
There’s a somewhat niche, but clever word for this particular combo - misogynoir
Coined by Moya Bailey in 2010
I think it’s called a “double minority”, but being a woman isn’t really a minority tho (edit: not a minority in the context of being 50% of the human population) so I don’t know if theres a better term than that.
I feel bad for people who are black, lesbian, neurodivergent, and trans-woman… like that’s a quadruple minority.
but being a woman isn’t really a minority tho
It depends on the context. In a Victoria’s Secret fashion show? Yeah, probably not the minority. In a tech role, which women are systemically harassed and bullied out of pursuing? Yeah, women are probably a minority.
That’s not what minority means in the sociological context. Volume is mathematical. Poor people are a minority and there’s more of them than the 1%. Being a minority is about lack of power, prestige and property. And intersectionality is the more formal term, but ‘double minority’ gets the point across.
but being a woman isn’t really a minority tho
They certainly are in computer science
The term is “intersectionality”. Conservatives really hated the term before they went all popeyed over “woke”.
idk the point of your snark… people are still figuring out intersectionality. just give some education or stfu, dont condescend to people who are making an effort.
@ReiRose@lemmy.world has it right, the term and idea is intersectionality.
apropos of nothing, intersectionality came out of critical race theory’s analyses of black womens outcomes in the legal system. the particular combination of oppression is literally the textbook example.
The funny thing is that in my experience female programmers usually have above average skills. I suspect it’s exactly because of this bias against women in tech. Where an average or below average dude can easily get by, this is much harder for women. As a result this bias acts as a kind of filter which results in female programmers being on average a little better than male programmers because all the average or below average ones get filtered out early.
Here’s hard data to match your experience:
“This paper presents the largest study to date on gender bias, where we compare acceptance rates of contributions from men versus women in an open source software community. Surprisingly, our results show that women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s. However, women’s acceptance rates are higher only when they are not identifiable as women. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.”
That’s probably just because women are smarter than men.
I might add, in the hostile environment women may feel compelled to try harder at least to make a point. As in, “I’ll show you what I can do”.
This is also common in the guitar community. Some women can shred like mofos, and here comes Jim-Bob McGraw saying their playing is tracked etc., ad nauseum
Can… Can I be the one sitting in that chair? (｡♡‿♡｡)
What does it mean if their playing is “tracked”? Genuinely have no clue.
Like they use a pre recorded track and then make a video
Lip syncing for guitarists
Sure there are. But then there are girls like Melle Baby who overshadow them not by only wearing underwear. Seriously, how do I get her out of my recommendations?
Yeah, online gaming has all but confirmed to me that sexism is very alive and well.
If she were a man, she’d be calling herself a polymath and everybody would be agreeing with her.
Even more rage inducing these comments would be the same if she wasn’t conventionally attractive.
Fucking programmers need a solid clip around the ear.
Claims to be able to program in C++, Java
“Pfft yeah probably only in Hello World”
No that’s Elon Musk. He’s full of shit. This Victoria Secret model can actually do something.
Nah Elon is not that useless, he knows how to change twitter’s icon
And lose lawsuits
I’m sure he got someone to do that for him
Probably replaced “twitter_logo.png” with the x logo under the same name in an AWS bucket lmao
I was so glad we had a woman join our dev team some months ago. It’s more fun, more relaxed and we are able to get better results as we just cover a wider area of skills. People gatekeeping programming to include only men are idiots.
That poor girl. My gf’s only female teammate quit last month and i suggested she start grinding leetcode asap. Could you imagine being the only woman on a team? Pretty strong indicator that something is very wrong there.
If we want to reach parity, there’s gotta be some only woman at first.
It’s the same thing with any kind of diversity. Not an expert, but anecdotally, it seems to work better if you start adding diversity at the top. At least people at the senior+ level are generally more comfortable being outliers.
Eh, my team is this way, but it’s because we’re aerospace adjacent which further compounds the problem. The only woman on our team is awesome and everyone gets along great. No one has an inflated ego or feels the need to one up each other though, which tends to be the root of the issue in my experience. Lots of tech bros feel the need to put others down, and see women as an easier target unfortunately.
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I think they meant men in specific in this case. I don’t know that there’s a huge problem of women being sexist against other women in tech.
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It’s annoying sometimes that people just assume that those who don’t work in tech are completely clueless about tech.
It’s also really funny to mess with people who assumes that.
as someone who works in tech, the number of people who think they know about tech and are actually completely full of shit dramatically outweighs the people who don’t work in tech and do know what they’re talking about. it can take a lot of energy to differentiate the 2 groups
dunning krueger is at play a lot, because most people use a computer every day and think they know everything about the internet because they know what DNS stands for and typed a command to flush the DNS cache this one time and it worked
This mirrors the experience of anyone who has studied linguistics.
Because everyone speaks at least one language fluently, they tend to assume that they understand how languages work, while having zero awareness of the fact that people have spent generations studying language and communication at the PhD level and that almost nothing about what we reflexively intuit about language actually holds true.
And I say this as a purely amateur linguistics nerd who does not claim any real formal expertise in terms of academic credentials.
I feel personally attacked lol
This is true, but also IT is a huge place there is an insane amount to learn. So really you spend an incredible amount of time in the “valley of despair”. Basically anyone who brags about their skills is VERY suspect. This person is an iOS developer, which is a great career, but the title of the article is phrased like she was at least Linus Torvalds. I’m sure she had little say in this, but whilst a reaction like this is never justified I can see why people made fun of it. Also it was clearly written by someone who has no idea what the words mean. Unless I’m mistaken MIPS is a cpu architecture, you can’t program in it. You can write machine code “for” it. So yeah I can see why people assumend these claims were lies.
They assumed these claims were lies because they are sexist.
I work in tech. I taught programming at university. And guys think I have no idea what I am talking about when I am the person correcting their f*ing babies homework. I had men come into my office asking me when the Sys Admin is back in office.
Tbf, the original photo was already discounting her abilities. Saying “can program code” for a lead SWE is saying like “can do calculus” for a physicist.
In their defense, maybe the post was written by some journalist with no technical background at all and doesn’t know the difference.
Very much so. Many non-technical people are still very much in awe when someone drops names of programming languages. And it kinda makes sense. If they have no idea, they naturally equate it to spoken languages. And if someone goes like “I speak these 7 languages”, most people would be mightily impressed.
But if you know a few programming languages, adding another similar one might be a matter of hours.
And that list of languages in the article is pretty standard for a BS in CS: a bunch of standard, common languages and one assembly language.
Likely they covered MIPS assembly at university. MIPS is a comparatively simple architecture and thus is used a lot in CS courses.
The thing here is, if they really wanted to show off that she’s got a good carreer and doing something remarkable, they could have just done what she did in her comment. List her current position and maybe her education.
I’d not be very happy if someone were to present my skills and achivements as “Can use these programming languages”.
Also, once you’re moderately good at programming, language doesn’t matter much. You can pick up a new high level language relatively easily if needed. Low level languages might be harder for some people though, because it takes a fairly different mindset. Personally, I love low level programming, though it’s not very time efficient to write.
Yeah, once you’ve got a few languages under your belt, it’s all about concepts. If you end up learning a new language that follows completely different paradigms, you are back to square one. But most of the time you can go like “Ah, so concept X of the new language works similar to concept Y of that language I already know.”
You know what. Good on her. Proud of her doing what she loves. You go girl!
can program code
Such a weird sentence
This is some good shit. As a white American male, I say: fuck sexism and racism. You go, girl.
A hello world in MIPS is impressive by itself.
Some fragile male egos in this thread. Looking forward to your complaints about the Barbie movie. Sad and pathetic.
I don’t know what you’re talking about. For me the fragile egos are way down the thread, all massively downvoted. The absolute majority is supportive.
Not everybody’s sorting by Top, friend. They’re probably down there where you say they are though.
People are addicted to rage.
A few arseholes on twitter saying negative things sets a chain reaction of rage to all those who are addicted to their own emotions.
The mature thing to do in all cases is to let it go.
It’s also worth noting that the original comments could be aimed at the fact she is a model, and not because she is a woman.
#zoolander
Why would anyone care about an hour-long toy commercial?
Because that’s not what the movie is at all. It actually spends a fair amount of time mocking consumerism and hating on the negative impact barbie has had on women’s self image and feminism. It’s actually pretty crass with a lot of offcolor jokes. It’s more targeted to adults who had Barbies as kids during on the 80s/90s.
I did the Barbenheimer double bill. The one that felt like a.commercial was the “YU ESS EH” nature of promoting American War interests.
Oppenheimer forces the viewer to strongly consider the awful thing that was done those two days.
I’m as critical of the US as anyone I’ve met but your take is bizarrely ignorant to what they were trying to do. I feel like you’d have to be intentionally missing the point to come away thinking that movie was pro-america in any way.
I’d be impressed by anyone who could “Hello, world” in MIPS
She a boss fr
Am I the only one that doesn’t think it’s a waste if a gorgeous person does modeling/acting? If I had a body people wanted to ogle I would be using that power 24/7 instead of sitting here in a shitty office under fluorescent lights pretending to care about work while they pretend to care about me.
How the hell does she program in mips? I thought that was a unit of measurement
Whenever I see someone taking down these absolute bottom of the barrel incel dork on social media, it just feels like shoo-ing a squirrel off the bird feeder. Just not even worth taking action
