Umm, what?<p>Do we say this kind of crap to Lawyers? Doctors? Engineers? (scratch the last one i&#x27;m sure we do say this kind of crap to them)<p>Why must programming be such a soul sucking life encompassing thing? It doesn&#x27;t matter if you&#x27;re a woman or man, this stupid mindset that somehow the only way to be a programmer is to be a stereotype needs to be launched into the sun and forevermore forgotten.<p>Just today I met a girl that was in her last year for aerospace engineering. She didn&#x27;t look like any nerd you might think. She just looked normal. Great fun to talk to as well.<p>Maybe when us nerds stop thinking of ourselves as some sort of promised race of super humans we can move past some of this nonsense.