&gt; I have a bad habit of overexplaining or talking down to people in general, because it can be so hard to guess what people do and don&#x27;t know, at least until you&#x27;ve spent significant time interacting. If I do this to a woman, she may perceive bias when I would likely have talked down to her even if she were male (which is still not okay).<p>As a male front-end web developer (who uses 5 operating systems daily, runs his own web server, scripts his own shell functions for linux, and outputs hundreds of lines of code and markup each week) I get talked down to by most infosec and IT people at my shared office. Even when you explain that you&#x27;re more comfortable on a Linux CLI than the desktop, they still feel the need to patronize you and use metaphors for everything to avoid using any technical terms in conversation at all.<p>I realize some people are just like that; it&#x27;s a self-importance issue on their end, not a self-esteem issue on mine. I just let it roll off, but if I had the nagging suspicion it was because of my gender&#x2F;age&#x2F;race&#x2F;height&#x2F;etc I could be sitting here feeling victimized over nothing.