Thanks for sharing your story @eveis! :) It’s unfortunate but not surprising that men tend to be praised for repeating their female colleagues’ suggestions. 🙄 The screenshot you posted reminds of an incident I experienced for last year’s wecoded. I wrote a discussion post on here where I question and express my frustration in the lack of visibility that womxn-owned/maintained open source projects
. As predicted, I did receive a comment from a man/male-presenting person that said, "This comes across as whiny. Everyone struggles in tech. GitHub does not have a gender check status"(the comment is no longer there as the mods took action to suspend this person). I was tempted lecture him, but I quickly realized that would be free labor, something womxn should avoid when dealing with immature men.
Unfortunately, I'm not surprised about that comment you received. I've seen so many similar ones here in Dev and other platforms as well, and it feels like the amount of such comments increases every year :/ And funny thing about that comment you received is that there have been many studies which have showed time and time again that womxn struggle significantly more in tech because of bias, their PR's get rejected in open source communities more easily if their gender is identified, and they (we) need to prove ourselves more often than men.
I was tempted lecture him, but I quickly realized that would be free labor, something womxn should avoid when dealing with immature men.
💯 I love that comment! That's so perfectly said!
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Thanks for sharing your story @eveis! :) It’s unfortunate but not surprising that men tend to be praised for repeating their female colleagues’ suggestions. 🙄 The screenshot you posted reminds of an incident I experienced for last year’s wecoded. I wrote a discussion post on here where I question and express my frustration in the lack of visibility that womxn-owned/maintained open source projects
Where are all the womxn-owned open source projects?
Christine Belzie ・ Mar 17 '23
Unfortunately, I'm not surprised about that comment you received. I've seen so many similar ones here in Dev and other platforms as well, and it feels like the amount of such comments increases every year :/ And funny thing about that comment you received is that there have been many studies which have showed time and time again that womxn struggle significantly more in tech because of bias, their PR's get rejected in open source communities more easily if their gender is identified, and they (we) need to prove ourselves more often than men.
💯 I love that comment! That's so perfectly said!