So she’s a dev who does modelling. Good for her? But what’s the big deal?
If the picture showed some ugly guy with the same list of skills, nobody would bat an eye. The list of languages seem like pretty regular set of languages (with the exception of MIPS, where I guess it means MIPS assembler, but most people who studied computer science pick up the one or the other random weird language by the wayside).
Of course, the comments of these idiots that are attacking her are idiotic, but I think the author of the text on the picture is falling for a similar pitfall, being surprised that someone who does modelling would have an intellectual carreer next to it.
All of them (except of course the dev in question) fall for the same idiotic misconception: They believe a woman can either be intelligent or good looking.
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.
Programming began as a solely female profession. In the early days of computers mathematics viewed programming as beneath them so it was relegated to women. Before computers they performed complex calculations by hand and those number crunchers were women, so when number crunchers were replaced with computers the best women graduated to programming those instead. If course once it became clear that programming was much more versatile and transformative than just converting math equations into instructions, men just took it and kicked women out of the industry. It’s not just the big female names that are being ignored here, it’s an entire history and industry that was stolen from women that is being ignored.
“G-GU-GUH?!?! NO, HOW COULD THIS BE?!?!? A FEMAIL GURL? IN MY PRO-GRAMMING COMMUNITY? PRO-GRAMMING IS 4 MANLY STRAIGHT WHITE MALES LIKE ALAN TURING (lol), ADAM LOVELACE, AND GRAYSON HOPPER”
Lead engineer was a (really good) engineer at some point. Also lead engineer still needs to understand a lot about programming and the project they’re working with
I don’t understand why people absolutely need to make everything about man vs woman.
If it was a male model those people would have written exactly the same. If tomorrow comes out an article saying the same thing about bred pitt everyone would be suspicious about that being fake too
Since the two jobs are so disconnected from each other it sounds unlikely and they assumed it was some clickbait fake post, that’s all.
I’m absolutely for equality and against any discrimination against women or any other category, but making this into a gender battle is ridiculous
By saying they would have said that about a man, you’re implying that they’re not sexist, or that they are not sexist comments.
However, for some reason, (but not coincidence) four men have made stereotypical statements that an attractive woman cannot be intelligent enough to know how to be code.
The woman is stating this is a reflection of her lived experience in the male dominated industry.
But she must be lying, just because she has had to face these same comments her whole life, there must be some other reason for these particular comments???
You’re claiming people are finding sexism where none exists. This thread alone shows that the post is a magnet for sexism. It’s not crying wolf. Your claim is a denial that it exists in at least one context where it’s incredibly clearly a factor.
So yeah, I extrapolated your opinion to other cases like this. Probably because this attitude has been seen since sexism first became a concern in society. This thread, again, is illustrating that quite well.
IMHO you’re right! It’s not (only!) about sexism, they make it themselves to sexism. It’s more about the image that only ugly fat nerds are programmers and someone beautiful just doesn’t fit in their little minds. Usually no one fucking cares what people like these think, but because of social media every eye is on those fucking desperate idiots and people feel the whole society thinks like this, what is completely wrong. To say that this is only coming from sexism is completely bullshit imho. Of course there are some, but it’s not the only reason.
Here’s some data to demonstrate the existence of gender bias in coding:
“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.https://peerj.com/preprints/1733/
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