Joe Sampson
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read

TLDR, but Zunger’s piece was a diatribe on how intimate he is with code then proceeds to use that as a platform to declare that coding has these rich characteristics that suggest a strong femininity, ergo, women are (better equipped? it’s unclear) to code. I could say the same thing about fire and firemen, medicine and doctors, religion and priests, but romanticizing being a computer jockey does not a gender expert make.

It’s like, are we reading Walt Whitman or would the guy like to comment on what the ‘googler’ wrote?