So, I'm one of the speakers at @LambdaConf this year. I learned Haskell as a first programming language when I was 40 and a SAHM.
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I have never felt terribly comfortable in the programming community, although people have mostly been nice to me. But I'm old. And a mom.
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And I don't know or care about how to write JavaScript. That means I never meet people *like me* in this community.
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I have it on somewhat good authority that Curtis Yarvin doesn't believe high-IQ women can be both good programmers and good moms.
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And, yet, when I was asked, as a "marginalized" speaker to vote whether to include Yarvin or not at
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I didn't say yes because I think he's a good person or because I think his opinions are all cool. I said yes because I'm not going to hide.
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I'm not saying everyone has to respond the way I do. But Curtis Yarvin has no power over me. None. At all. I refuse that.
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@argumatronic You are an excellent person.
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