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.
That’s a bizarre conclusion to reach from what I’ve said.
Are you suggesting it’s never about gender?
It’s not about gender, indeed, it is about behavior and character of individuals. If you look at systemic and structural sexism, they are not about the gender of individuals in the system either.
I said it’s not productive to attribute shitty behavior to gender. Sexism isn’t about the gender of the people who behave in a sexist way, the effects of sexist behavior are obviously always about gender.
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.
If you want women to feel welcome, you probably shouldn’t use gendered slurs.
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.
Still, it’s not productive to attribute shitty behavior to gender.
Are you suggesting it’s never about gender? There’s no such thing as sexism?
That’s a bizarre conclusion to reach from what I’ve said.
It’s not about gender, indeed, it is about behavior and character of individuals. If you look at systemic and structural sexism, they are not about the gender of individuals in the system either.
Sexism isn’t about gender? What the hell are you talking about?
What I believe they mean is that you shouldn’t counter sexism with sexism.
While there are a lot of sexist guys in tech, not every guy in tech is sexist.
I said it’s not productive to attribute shitty behavior to gender. Sexism isn’t about the gender of the people who behave in a sexist way, the effects of sexist behavior are obviously always about gender.