• @blakestacey@awful.systems
    link
    fedilink
    English
    1710 months ago

    Image description: a series of three tweets by blue-checks.

    Tweet from suzuha:

    “techbro” is just the reemergence of thinking it’s cool to hate nerds, mixed in with a bunch of resentment from watching the last 20 years of nerds taking over the world

    Reply by Paul Graham:

    It’s more a way to hate men.

    Reply by jason:

    As one insider told me (who is not me): ‘imagine an equally sexist name was given to, say, female pundits and journalists’ … what would the reaction be?’