"I am seeing a trend to make frontend Dev work a 'female' discipline while the 'serious programming' stuff like backend and embedded as 'masculine' and I would like to say fuck that very much
"The impulse to construe social categories out of arbitrary delineations and then to label the one you inhabit as superior is trivially perceptible as problematic, yes?"
-- Anya (_Iyalei), 2022-04-04
"In 2000s we had 'Helpdesk jobs are for women'
In 2010s we had 'QA and testing are for women'
Now in 2020s it's 'frontend is for women'
"In 10 years it'll probably be 'interpreted languages are for women' or some bullshit like that
"At some point the only truly masculine thing left in IT will be x86 assembly"
-- Wolfgang (notthebeeee), replying to Anya