Learning to Code as a Woman Changed My Life
I see a lot of comments by privileged straight males on here. As usual, you just don&#x27;t get it; you have not spent one second trying to put yourself in another&#x27;s shoes.<p>I am a gay man who has been in the internet industry since 1996. From my long experience, about 50% of coders are macho, taciturn, unhelpful frat bros who make anyone who is not a member of their boys club most unwelcome.<p>My career (and surely the career of the article writer and anyone else who is not a bro) came as a result of the other 50%, talented, generous men and women whose shared their expertise and encouraged me. I certainly did not pull myself up by my own bootstraps; without that assistance I would not be where I am today, which is team lead.<p>So for those who &quot;abhor&quot; the argument laid out in this article, for once, for just once, SHUT UP, LISTEN to what is being said, and consider how it you might be a carrier of the &quot;racist, sexist and classist&quot; attitudes being called out.