I’m sorry. That’s what happened to me and it sucks. I’m actually planning on going back to school for something tech-adjacent because trying to be a front end developer was not worth the frustration.

I wish I could tell you different. My two direct superiors are women, too, and they work as hard as possible to make sure the men feel good about themselves while the women clean up the messes they make. And any time they do something that would get me fired, I hear, “but he’s such a nice guy...”

From an outsider perspective; why aren’t slogans like “Best reader in the class” or “Smartest kid in the school” “Math Genius” “Future Engineer, Doctor, Lawyer, Architect, etc” being used?

I haven’t felt down like this in a long time. I see his face, and it just makes me...sad what they did to him. I don’t even really care if it was inadvertent or not. I hope he’s young enough that he hasn’t internalized this as something he did wrong.

I left dev work after 5 years of being a code monkey. I’m still in tech but I rarely code outside of side projects because I was so fucking sick of doing shit projects, being the only woman on the team, and constantly being forced to pay my dues while less experienced guys waltzed in. I’ve been thinking moving back in…

Well, according to these guys, when a white man gets a position it’s because he was objectively the best choice for the position. If a woman/minority gets the job, then it’s because they’re a diversity hire. See: every white guy on reddit griping about how terrible all their tech “diversity hires” are as proof that…

This stupid situation is frustratingly personal for me. This asshole was in my high school class of ~205 a decade ago. (No, really.) Unfortunately, for a lot of reasons—one simply being the fact it was a boarding school almost entirely composed of nerds with unfettered access to very fast internet—there were quite a…

I have a STEM degree with a focus on web development from the late-00s, often the only woman in my class, etc

The reason young women and girls aren’t becoming experts in STEM is because they don’t want to get beat up by boys and young men and men. I’m serious. I’ve watched 5-12 year Olds stand in line to use the robotics for the first time and all the boys shoved to the front and the girls spent a few minutes watching their…

“Google’s management goes to extreme — and illegal — lengths to encourage hiring managers to take protected categories such as race and/or gender into consideration as determinative hiring factors, to the detriment of Caucasian and male employees and potential employees at Google,” reads the 161-page complaint.

I (a woman) got promoted this year to a senior position over several male colleagues who all have crippling social/emotional issues and are general assholes. Guess what the narrative is in my group right now?

“Google’s management goes to extreme — and illegal — lengths to encourage hiring managers to take protected categories such as race and/or gender into consideration as determinative hiring factors, to the detriment of Caucasian and male employees and potential employees at Google,”

I had an interesting thought yesterday and this article reminded me of it.

As I sit here with my boyfriend who I love, I have to agree with you. Men are a lot of thankless work. I like sex with them and a certain amount of companionship, but they are so draining and give so little back.

This is the truth. Between my wife and I, we have known a number of single women who were absolutely fantastic. Smart, accomplished, anywhere from “cute” to “stunning”, funny, kind...the whole bit. (As we’ve all moved into our late 30s/early 40s, many of them have eventually settled into long term relationships.)

What it ultimately boils down to is: there are many more exceptional women out there than there are exceptional men. Ninety percent of the older single (unpartnered) women I know are intelligent, attractive and have many loving relationships with family and friends. I really cannot say the same about the older…

Yeah when we lived in Germany, I tried to explain how things are here and I kinda think she thought I was exaggerating a bit about until she saw it for herself. Now don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of Germans that don’t like their foreign minorities (Turks being like the Mexicans of Germany), but the line isn’t as…

Married to a German woman, when we lived in the US for the first time, she never really understood the dynamics of white-privilege in this country before. Sure she had some idea about how things worked here, having talked to other Americans (Soldiers mostly), but living here was an eye-opener for her. It’s was subtle…

Things I’ve figured out from watching white liberals in 2017.