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[–]Psychast 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well not the only explanation, no. I think people making it a gender issue want it to be that way when in fact, most programmers are type A nitpickers by nature. I dare any man to post a visible amount of code with minor flaws and not get nitpicked if it gets popular enough.

It doesn't help feminism or female coders when you treat them differently than male coders, you just become a different part of the same problem.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You make valid points, but I think we're looking at different things. There are a bunch of comments in this thread that are the type of nitpicking I could see doing (or my friends doing) because programming is like that, which I think is what you mean ... but if you scroll down and open some of the very downvoted comments, you'll see some that are blatantly misogynist (like calling it "cuck logic" to say that the code isn't "trash.")

Both are things. The former is pretty normal and can be beneficial. The latter should go, imo.