&gt;  Companies want you to shut up about that, so that women are paid 70% of what men are paid.<p>Stopped reading here because I assumed the rest would be equally as well informed. Shame too, I was enjoying the perspective.<p>Edit: Decided to give the author the benefit of the doubt and continued reading for the opportunity to have my perspective changed. With that said, I&#x27;m also not very fond of the anti-white male narrative quoted below, and I&#x27;ll elaborate on why<p>&gt; If you are a white male remember all the privilege you have enjoyed since birth just because you were born that way. It is your responsibility to change the industry and its bias towards more inclusion.<p>I don&#x27;t think the real problem here is with being white, male or privileged. (Though, <i>obviously</i> our industry has a problem with diversity.) Programmers, for better or worse, typically aren&#x27;t very sociable people, and thus become abrasive to dissenting opinions. (I&#x27;ll be the first to admit that I do this, and will continue to do it as I try to improve and reduce this behaviour.) Whether that opinion comes from a transexual black 10x-er or a straight white female who recently graduated from college, or even a seasoned veteran with 25 years experience. Quite often, a difference of opinion for programmers defaults to &quot;they&#x27;re wrong because they don&#x27;t think like me.&quot; I experience this daily, and I&#x27;m a straight white 21 year old male from an affluent community. So to the authors point, yes if we could stop being assholes to each other that would be great. However I absolutely disagree that the behaviour of my peers is racially motivated, and I resent the implication.<p>And I&#x27;m supposed to &quot;send the elevator down&quot; just to those who I assume to be the most slighted minority? How do you suppose that works? Should I just assume that all women need my help and support because they&#x27;re women? What indicators would one even use to determine such a qualification, other than being systematically sexist and racist? Here&#x27;s a thought: help everyone, as often as possible! Don&#x27;t motivate your behaviour based on peoples&#x27; identities!<p>But yes, I do agree with the underlying sentiment that follows, I just wish it wasn&#x27;t prefaced with unnecessary garbage.<p>&gt; Do not critisize or make fun of the technology choices of your peers; for other people will have their own reasons to choose them, and they must be respected. Be prepared to change your mind at any time through learning.<p>Perfect. Why did we need the intro?