@ -77,13 +77,18 @@ It's ok, someone could argue, every question that can be asked on Stack Overflow
But it's not rare for these places to feel unwelcoming, or even hostile. In 2018, Stack Overflow pubblicly admitted that there was a problem concerning their userbase. The platform felt unfriendly for _outsiders_ (what a choice of words) such as newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups (Hanlon, 2018).
But it's not rare for these places to feel unwelcoming, or even hostile. In 2018, Stack Overflow pubblicly admitted that there was a problem concerning their userbase. The platform felt unfriendly for _outsiders_ (what a choice of words) such as newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups (Hanlon, 2018).
Far from being just a Stack Overflow problem, machism is deeply embedded in the IT discourse, soaking through technical writings as well. The denigrating expressions of superiority in matters concerning programming that Marino calls _encoded chauvinism_ (Marino, 2020) constitute the main ingredient in the brew of toxic geek masculinity. Real programmers don't use this code editor. Real programmers don't use this programming language. Real programmers don't care about others feelings. Etc.
Far from being just a Stack Overflow problem, machism is deeply embedded in the IT discourse, soaking through technical writings as well.
Ellen Ullman accounts on the emotional dumbness of her male collegues give an insight of a problematic behavior first intercepted and then capitalized by the IT industry (Ullman, 1997; 2017).
The denigrating expressions of superiority in matters concerning programming that Marino calls _encoded chauvinism_ (Marino, 2020) constitute the main ingredient in the brew of toxic geek masculinity. Real programmers don't use this code editor. Real programmers don't use this programming language. Real programmers don't care about others feelings. Real programmers read the fucking manual. Etc.
Ellen Ullman accounts on the emotional dumbness of her male collegues give an insight of a problematic behavior first intercepted and then capitalized by the IT industry (Ullman, 1997; 2017).
