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Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by thrance on Thursday December 18, 2025 @03:07PM (#46317935)
How would that explain the very basic fact that most programmers were women in the early days of computing? It can't. The most important factors deciding which gender is most represented in programming are sociological.
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Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by nomel on Thursday December 18, 2025 @03:19PM (#46318105)
You need to look at the history of it all. There wasn't the freedom back then, that we have now, where women could choose their profession based on personal interest. Back then programmers were women. It wasn't considered a man's job [1].

[1] https://www.history.com/articles/coding-used-to-be-a-womans-...

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Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by DonHopkins on Thursday December 18, 2025 @06:33PM (#46320325)
When you look at the history of it all, it clearly shows that men have always been misogynistic bigots oppressing and driving women out of educational opportunities and professional careers, and they still all, even more so today than ten years ago, due to the rise of GamerGate, MAGA and Project 2025.
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