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Re:Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy (2013) by d23 on Friday July 24, 2015 @11:10AM (#9942494)
> I think "other careers don't require knowledge and ability like mine does" is the perfect example of illusory superiority.

Actually that's plenty fine. Just do a quick thought experiment: a career like garbageman or janitor. Some careers require more knowledge work than others. There's nothing wrong with that.

When did this attitude of "everything's equal all the time and nothing's different" become so pervasive and accepted?

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Re:Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy (2013) by awkward on Friday July 24, 2015 @12:15PM (#9943003)
If someone disagrees with the statement "programming is a fundamentally different career from everything else in terms of ability and knowledge required" it does not follow that they believe "all careers including garbageman and janitor are equal in ability and knowledge to programming and none of them are different."
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Re:Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy (2013) by oldmanjay on Friday July 24, 2015 @02:07PM (#9943960)
If someone disagrees with the statement "programming is a fundamentally different career from everything else in terms of ability and knowledge required" then they almost certainly don't know how to write good software.
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