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Unrelated to bootcamps, but one thing really jumped out at me in the article. The author&#x27;s discussion of BigO time:<p>&quot;The post went on to detail a need for an understanding of BigO time complexity, which is completely fair. No one wants a double loop in production code. What a bulky monstrosity that would be (imagining a giant disgusting swamp monster made of 0’s and 1’s, eeek!).&quot;<p>&quot;I certainly don’t want to make a messy newb mistake like creating a method with a time complexity of O(n²) or worse (cringe).&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not going to be critical and say that this is <i>wrong</i> and that the author doesn&#x27;t know what she is doing. But it does seem that this quote demonstrates a tendency I see among female advocates of women in tech, and that is to slightly awkwardly use technical terms in order to try to prove that they are part of the &quot;in group&quot; of people who understand technical concepts.<p>In this case, it seems that she is trying to prove that she knows what BigO is. I feel like this is a kind of meta-sexism. What she is doing by explaining to us the gist of BigO is saying &quot;I think that you think that I&#x27;m so stupid that I don&#x27;t know what BigO is, so now I&#x27;m going to prove to you that I do.&quot;<p>I know I suffer from the assumption that women don&#x27;t know how to code. It&#x27;s a hard thing to get around, since � of female programmers whom I meet are women from PyLadies who come to the local python meetup, and really don&#x27;t know how to program yet. And now our author is suffering from the assumption that I assume that she doesn&#x27;t know how to code. And in trying to prove otherwise, she trips over herself in her eagerness to prove my assumption wrong.<p>This meta-sexist thinking and behavior is getting so complicated and convoluted that it is acting to distract us from thinking and communicating on technical topics. I believe that it has become harmful to the cause of encouraging women and minorities to join our communities. It is harder for me as a white man to talk to a woman or a minority because I am thinking about their gender or race. And it is harder for a woman to talk about tech if she is thinking about my thinking about the fact that she is a woman.<p>Somehow we need to escape meta-sexism and start talking to each-other as equals, without presumption or presumption of presumption.