As a dark-hooded sweater guy, I'm feeling personally insulted.
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I think the abundance of trans women (β women who were raised as boys) is proof the social conditioning the only factor in why there aren't more women in STEM fields. Women love this shit just as much as men, but they're actively steered away from it.
(Yes, women face other challenges beyond lack of exposure, but I think all of them can be traced back to social factors as well, such as how men are conditioned to treat women.)
Your conclusion is probably correct, but I don't think your proof works. I'm going to play devil's advocate now: The thing to consider here is that these women were not just raised as boys, they were also born as boys. They may be on HRT now, but what if there are differences between how the male and female brains work that come from the Y chromosome? Or your hormonal balance in your formative years? I would hope not because that gives sexists way too much ammo, but we do not know for sure.
There's other potential reasons for all the trans women in software engineering too. Children who don't feel comfortable in their own identities are probably way less social - I don't have enough trans friends to confirm this is true, but I feel like it might be. Not being particularly popular in school drives you to gaming as a hobby because you don't need friends for that, and at least in the 90s and 00s that would usually mean tinkering with your PC (because Windows never fucking worked properly, did it now). This would also explain all the furries IMO.
but what if there are differences between how the male brain and female brains work that come from the Y chromosome?
This assumes that trans women are born with a male brain. The consensus of the scientific community says that this is false - being born with a female brain in a male body is how someone is born trans which further supports the argument you are responding to.
Iβm paraphrasing here but essentially the SRY gene (that stimulates production of androgens in a fetus) is released at a different time than the formation of the brain. So it is possible, but rare for someone to be born with a brain that doesnβt match their body and poof thatβs where trans people come from.
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That's quite interesting and actually a very useful step in proving what the comment above mine was trying to prove.
Furry sysadmin and trans girl reporting here lol
You don't need the "like" on the end
It's either "how it looks" or "what it looks like". You can't mix and match.
Thank you, came here to say this. It really feels like people are fighting over having the worst grammar, like there's something to win from it. Even basic stuff like this is apparently too hard to comprehend.
That is hardly basic if you aren't a native speaker.
I'll never forget dialling into a work meeting with the corporate infosec team who we needed some guidance from.
Their rep shows up and it's a fem-presenting person with pink cat-ear headphones.
I'm like oh fuck they sent the big guns, this is exactly who we needed to talk to. And I was right, we got exactly what we needed.
The old adage "The worst-dressed nerd in the meeting is the most important one" could use some updating for the modern era to include trans folks with really good fits...
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Both pics are accurate at times
I am contributing to the "trans girls everywhere for some reason"
Furry sysadmin here, also trans but not a girl =D
mint: lisa frank edition (and i'm here for it)
Missed opportunity
The gun should have been labeled !!
It is, with the best meme security problem that came to my mind.
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'sudo' is another contender
It needs way more gawdy neon color palettes.
I swear half these people with blogs pick the most aggressive bright pink and greens when building their websites from scratch for the first time and then just stick with it!
It's missing Libertarian idiots
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Every sentence also ends in a :3
:3
sudo rm -rf / no-preserve-root :3
I would argue that's the cool part. You also have the average hyper racist neo-reactionary Suckless fossid user who thinks daring to write in anything other than C is "gay" or smth.
As a gay trans man, looking down on people who code in anything other than C is my toxic masculinity. Donβt let reactionaries take it away from me.
Youβre not a real man if you use an IDE. Vim and gcc were good enough for the founding fathers (D & R), theyβre good enough for me.
I use an IDE... guess I'm not a real man anymore π³οΈββ§οΈ
^/s^
I believe in your right to access gender affirming care (installing netbeans)
Psh, etch the code directly onto the HDD platters, SSDs are for losers.
I had a discussion with someone who was of the belief that anyone that doesn't build their own packages and reads the documentation is a lazy retard that doesn't know what they're installing on their computer.
That was a fun conversation
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I'm three of those
You're Indian tech software from the 80's setting the kernel mailing list on fire?
Your name matches the comment directly above.
:3
How could you forget the weebs?
Also didn't include the 'old guard', the meme was just too small, or doesn't have enough recognizable details respectively (and putting them in heaven had bad implications).
wouldnt it be hardware from the 80s?
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