The future is emotional
I&#x27;m a bit annoyed at the constant background snide and subtle implication of these vague literary articles, that programmers are bad empathetically or emotionally. They use facts such as western programming culture being very male-dominated, and then twist this to imply that males are bad at being empathetic.<p>Firstly the gender ratio of engineers in e.g. Russia is more even, so let&#x27;s just shoot that one down before continuing. There&#x27;s a lot of gender imbalance in Western culture as a whole and to imply that most of it is the &quot;fault&quot; of unemotional males is pretty insulting.<p>Often this also accompanied by some implicit value judgement assumption, that they attempt to force onto the programmer. &quot;My values are better than yours&quot;. Er, no sorry. If you think a programmer is being unemotional, perhaps you should take a step back and examine whether it is <i>you</i> who are being unempathetic, brushing away someone else&#x27;s engineering concerns as being less important than your own personal feelings about a topic that you don&#x27;t have a good knowledge of?