Since I don't have any title hanging and getting rusty in my walls, I received too much hate and horrible comments towards me and my skills. One time I had this woman telling me on Twitter that "I probably was the one bringing the coffee to the engineer's team, not coding with'em".
That lady made me understand that this industry if full of gatekeepers, and that very often it's not a white male with a computer degree, sometimes we'll find too a "white lady" with the same degree, with the same mindset: "I struggled for years, now it's your turn and if you can't afford it go home".
That's why I'm trying to become the difference, telling everyone to just do it! Coding it's not a superpower, even tho it can make you feel supercool. Congrats again for the post, felt every line on it.
I see your point, but let me state a personal experience of mine. I was once a member of a Google Developer community while in school. We got a lot of ladies come around, some saying they wanted to learn how to code. But none of them ever did, not because anybody tried to stop them. It seemed like they said one thing but did something else. They mostly just came around for the food and t-shirts that we got. But I've also seen female programmers.
But imagine i never got to meet female programmers. I'd come off with the idea that girls don't naturally like to coding, and all the usual reasons people give that we find offensive. Although I'll admit that some are intentional. But we jump to conclusions too often without first considering the situation from the other person point of view or experience.
I see you fail to understand the point I was making, I wasn't making any claim as to whatever might be the reasons for the discrepancies we see in tech. I'm just saying we should try to understand why some people might think in a certain way on these issues. And to be honest, this "Does that mean that men don't naturally like design? Because I've met "male designers"" does not make sense, I think you should have checked it before posting.
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Totally agree, James.
Since I don't have any title hanging and getting rusty in my walls, I received too much hate and horrible comments towards me and my skills. One time I had this woman telling me on Twitter that "I probably was the one bringing the coffee to the engineer's team, not coding with'em".
That lady made me understand that this industry if full of gatekeepers, and that very often it's not a white male with a computer degree, sometimes we'll find too a "white lady" with the same degree, with the same mindset: "I struggled for years, now it's your turn and if you can't afford it go home".
That's why I'm trying to become the difference, telling everyone to just do it! Coding it's not a superpower, even tho it can make you feel supercool. Congrats again for the post, felt every line on it.
I see your point, but let me state a personal experience of mine. I was once a member of a Google Developer community while in school. We got a lot of ladies come around, some saying they wanted to learn how to code. But none of them ever did, not because anybody tried to stop them. It seemed like they said one thing but did something else. They mostly just came around for the food and t-shirts that we got. But I've also seen female programmers.
But imagine i never got to meet female programmers. I'd come off with the idea that girls don't naturally like to coding, and all the usual reasons people give that we find offensive. Although I'll admit that some are intentional. But we jump to conclusions too often without first considering the situation from the other person point of view or experience.
I've seen men who hate design. Does that mean that men don't naturally like design? Because I've met "male designers"...
Your point is honestly pointless.
I see you fail to understand the point I was making, I wasn't making any claim as to whatever might be the reasons for the discrepancies we see in tech. I'm just saying we should try to understand why some people might think in a certain way on these issues. And to be honest, this "Does that mean that men don't naturally like design? Because I've met "male designers"" does not make sense, I think you should have checked it before posting.