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Re:Contempt Culture by IntFloatNil on Sunday May 14, 2023 @11:29AM (#35938706)
> Other self-taught narratives, such as starting with Wordpress-based design backgrounds and moving from more simple themes to more complex themes where PHP knowledge is required, to plugin development is a completely valid narrative, but a path that is predominately for women.

> All of the ways in which I was actively participating in the exclusion of women from STEM.

How does this train of thought cross one's mind, and be determined as valid and acceptable for a blog post? What reality are you living in?

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Re:Contempt Culture by dandellion on Sunday May 14, 2023 @11:38AM (#35938775)
I'm a minority (Spaniard, at an American company). I also I used to use PHP. I can 100% say that I'm glad people made fun of it because it influenced me to try other things and I was much, much better of for it. PHP was an objectively bad language (at least when I was using it, I hear it might be better now).

Mockery is a very effective signalling mechanism and censoring it to comply with US corporate correctness seems a bit overbearing, to be honest.

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