What???<p>My childhood best friend and college roommate shocked me by calling one of our CS classmates a &quot;huge bitch&quot; for not going on a date with him after they had lunch together our first week of college.<p>I&#x27;ve lost track of how many sexist lines I&#x27;ve heard, like:<p>&quot;make me a sammich bitch, haha&quot;,<p>&quot;don&#x27;t be an emo bitch about it, haha&quot;,<p>&quot;if we don&#x27;t let people freely express themselves on the CS listserv, then this is a tyrannical school that has been ruined by feminists (this one after of course, a guy posted a several page rant about why women are bitches, &#x27;haha&#x27;)&quot;.<p>Also, let me tell you this story of two friends I knew who applied at a certain internet start-up on Market Street in San Francisco in 2014:<p>A was male, 21 years old, a stoner and business school drop-out with a portfolio consisting of a Java tower defense game.<p>B was female, 30 years old, with several years experience doing QA on computer peripheral drivers who had re-trained herself as a web developer and had a Rails StackOverflow clone and a Meteor KhanAcademy clone for her portfolio.<p>A got offered a six-figure full time position.<p>B got offered an internship.<p>Final point, I&#x27;ve seen so much elitist and arrogant behavior from MEN directed towards OTHER MEN. Nothing could be further from the truth than software being completely welcoming. Of course it&#x27;s still a very good industry overall; it&#x27;s by no means the worst.