“I had so many advantages, and I barely made it”: Pinterest engineer on sexism

Re:“I had so many advantages, and I barely made it”: Pintere... by KaiserPro on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @02:15AM (#11486115)

[edit, in this case I'd suggest that...]Sexism is a side effect of engineers being utter arseholes.

Fortunately the toxic "bow down to my magisterial knowledge, any person that dares to ask questions shall be cast into apostasy" isn't pervasive in any of the companies I work.

Having a daughter, it really shows in stark relief that girls are not allowed to be leaders, they are just bossy little [insert word here].

Women in meetings have to steep themselves in business passive to get an idea across, which is both fucking sad and annoying in equal terms.

As for watching nerdy bro's hit on women, if fucking pathetic. Iterative a/b tests of single chatup lines do not work on the same person.

Its a shame you weren't confident of your own opinion enough to use a real account.

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Re:“I had so many advantages, and I barely made it”: Pintere... by ae_keji on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @02:26AM (#11486159)

Is sexism a side effect of engineers being assholes or is engineers being assholes a problem because sexism exists so much in the first place? It's very easy to blame a company or a subculture as being sexist, but no one thinks about how the entirety of Western society is still damn sexist. The fact that makeup exists, for example. Women are universally expected to be subordinate and seen before heard. Women keep getting pushed around because that's what our social structure expects them to do. Engineers not being assholes isn't going to solve the problem. Women being assholes, and everyone getting used to that, just might.

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Re:“I had so many advantages, and I barely made it”: Pintere... by KaiserPro on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @03:14AM (#11486352)

I broadly agree here, but I'd suggest that its more nuanced than 'western culture' sexism in britian is different to in america.

However, I work in tech, so I can't comment on other areas. But I'd love engineers to stop being arseholes, it make life much easer, and we'd get more things done.

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Re:“I had so many advantages, and I barely made it”: Pintere... by notmything on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @05:24AM (#11486827)

Any bossy child is a bossy little [insert word here], not just girls.

I'm not familiar with work environments where women have to 'steep themselves in business passive'. My wife was never like that when I met her nor are most of the women I've worked with. Please show me where all these passive women are at work, might make my life easier...

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