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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Image description: a series of three tweets by blue-checks.

Tweet from suzuha:

"techbro" is just the reemergence of thinking it's cool to hate nerds, mixed in with a bunch of resentment from watching the last 20 years of nerds taking over the world

Reply by Paul Graham:

It's more a way to hate men.

Reply by jason:

As one insider told me (who is not me): 'imagine an equally sexist name was given to, say, female pundits and journalists' ... what would the reaction be?'