> Yes, actually, people do this all the time.

I have trouble really imagining someone finding much success if they drop things they care about because the situation around them isnt ideal.

If you can just go find something new to be passionate about then you're not really passionate about it.

It may come as a shock to you but some people have multiple passions in life. Besides, your arguments reeks of the classic gamer 'women are not really into it' take

It may come as a shock to you but how many passions you have is not relevant to my argument.

And that second part of your post is really damn far fetched. I never even mentioned anything remotely related to gender.

the second part wasn't about what you said, but an example of how the claim "if a person gives up something, then they weren't passionate enough" is nonsense.

to give you a better example: since guido van rossum gave up leadership of python, does that mean that he wasn't passionate enough about it?

absolutely not. but how he was treated destroyed his passion, and he couldn't handle it any more and burned out. this is the argument above. women leave despite their passion they got more pain than they could handle. just like guido.

How did it destroy his passion? Did he quit all of CS entirely, including coding as a hobby, and took up shit like fishing instead? No? Then it didn't destroy his passion. He quit Python but Python isn't his passion. It's just a manifestation of it.

If you really love knitting then you're not gonna quit it altogether because you once had a shitty experience with a knitting group. You're just gonna find another knitting group or do it alone. But if you do quit, then you never were passionate about it. That's my point and that has nothing to do with female gamers or whatever juvenile bullshit GGP is currently interpreting into it.

How was Guido treated?