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You're offending all female programmers because you automatically assumed that he was actually a male. It doesn't matter that males make up the majority, or that it's a stereotype, you can't ignore the fact that you are overlooking the minority of programmers, those who are female. What is the issue with this? This discourages females from pursuing a future in IT, because it continues to confirm gender roles that programmers should be males.
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FFS should I have assumed that Fysez was genderless? Or would it make sense that I assume that Fysez was a girl. The answer to both of those is no. I don't get it, what do you actually think I should've done? "OH ****! FYSEZ IS IN A MALE DOMINATED CAREER FIELD AND I DONT THEIR GENDER, BETTER ASSUME HE IS A WOMAN OR WAS BORN WITHOUT A GENDER SO I DONT OFFEND ANY SENSITIVE LITTLE KIDDIES!"
If you think what I did offended anyone, or discourages females from pursuing a career in programming you are reading too much into this.
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Fysez claimed to be female before this thread was made, but you assumed that he was a male before this (unless you meant that you believe him to be telling the truth that he is a male and never knew he was a female before this thread).
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Never had any idea Fysez was saying he was a girl, just figured he was a male. I suck with genders ok? I thought Talon was a girl for the longest time and still have no clue if ViciPower is a boy or girl-- cause I don't give a ****, some internet stranger's gender is of no concern to me.
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Yes I agree with you that programming is mostly made up of males, but if someone says they are a female in programming you shouldn't think they're lying just because of that statistic.
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I agree too... that's exactly what I said.
No. Go back to tumblr or block me and the other 100s of people that use that term.
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You don't care because it's not affecting YOU, females are the ones being looked over as unfit for a career in programming. This affects real people. How do you know no one was actually offended?
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Females don't have careers in programming because they aren't pursuing careers in programming, if a girl wants to get into programming all she has to do is change her major from "Feminist Dance Therapy" to "Programming". No one is actively trying to stop women from getting in fields like that, I'm sure that most guys don't want to work in a giant sausage box and would happily welcome women.
Not only that but programming is a job that is largely self employed; or something where you will communicate with your client over the web-- where gender is for the most part irrelevant.
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I'm glad younger people want to be more politically correct and for everyone to watch other peoples feelings.
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When it comes to the kind of ridiculous bull**** that some people think is racism, I'm not happy about it. I'm all for equality and coexisting but some SJ **** is just ridiculous.