"[women can code] if given the chance, of course! Sadly basic coding skills are being gatekept due to elitism and sexism from the teaching side with arguments along the lines of: "they just cannot cope with learning how to code"." Excellent post by @o_guesthttps://twitter.com/o_guest/status/1073246501571309568 …
"What if you have to code and you are on your period?"
The thing is it's 2018 and people have still make this kind of argument. 
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A man told me only seven years ago that women shouldn't be allowed to be pilots, because what if it wasn't known she'd been raped, and she "has a flashback and crashes the plane".
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This guy literally has no idea how PTSD even works — not how one gets triggered anyway. Also, most women. most people!, have been assaulted and yet we do just fine.
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Carrying around trauma is what we do -- while being highly intelligent, functioning, creative, caring powerhouses. This person was unintelligent and insulting; I ultimately kicked him out of my home.
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Nice one!
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