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i just made this right now, after trembling at my first professional correspondence with an old highschool friend.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Rhetoric like this discourages women from becoming engineers, saying that a female tech lead isn't even a possibility is ~~pretty~~ sexist. For the record, if you had just said "he" without the sassy parenthetical I wouldn't have batted an eye.

*Now that I think about it, pretty sexist is an understatement, it's just plain sexist. Female tech leads exist, look it up, and stop perpetuating sexist ideas in tech

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I apologize. That was meant to be a humorous commiseration on the state of a profession that tends to be gender biased, but clearly I missed.

[–] seukari 2 points 1 year ago

Just noticed this, fair play to you! Sorry for the misunderstanding :)