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[–] [email protected] 107 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Ain't just gaming. I dropped a note on a home tech forum while being visibly female and very rapidly realised i'd forgotten how fucking neckbeardy rank amateurs are

I've been a network/systems engineer for 25 years, my fellow pros would never be so gauche.

Except dev.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago

It’s weird with devs. Most of us are fine but there’s definitely a sizable number of “tech bros” that absolutely are misogynistic. And it’s probably worse than I realize not being the target of it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Rather ironically, I'm actually married to a dev

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

instructions unclear, husband now caught in ceiling fan ranting about SEO

[–] hoshikarakitaridia 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And that's why they made us learn Murphy's law early on :P

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I prefer O'Toole's Commentary. Murphy was a fuckin' optimist

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Also, a disturbing number of misogynistic people in web design/web dev needing help from technical support. It was rather shocking and educational for me, as a cis male, to work as a support supervisor. I never anticipated the level of sexism and harassment that my female techs faced on a daily basis.

Everything from asking of they want to do porn to "can I talk to a man". I had several techs that had to change the names that they used for customer communications to male or neutral ones due to the severity on the unending sexism despite regular warnings to the customers that this behavior would not be tolerated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Working sysadmin gets you four times more abuse because it's the crux of 'mean person won't let my idiot arse run rampant on a system because they're mean and i hate them' and 'fuck youse wimmen don't tell me what to fucking do'