@RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agoWhat’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”?message-square52fedilinkarrow-up136file-text
arrow-up136message-squareWhat’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”?@RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square52fedilinkfile-text
Im looking for something that isn’t gender specific but carries the same inherent disdain that “techbro” has.
minus-square@actionjbone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink51•2 months agoBy their nature, techbros are exclusionary toward women/other genders. So, no gender-neutral term is necessary.
minus-square@Cryophilia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink14•2 months agoWhat a ridiculous take You’re saying there’s no women at all perpetuating enshittification, corporate surveillance, social media propaganda, and targeted advertising? Literally not a single woman, among the hundreds of thousands of people working in tech?
minus-square@BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-22 months agoI’d argue that Elizabeth Holmes fits the bill as a female tech-bro.
minus-square@starlinguk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink5•2 months agoWomen who work in tech are wayyy more likely to be victims of techbros than actually be techbros.
minus-square@daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink4•edit-22 months agoIdentity policies at work. It doesn’t matter what you do, it only matters what labels do you have.
minus-square@RockaiE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•2 months agohttps://c.tenor.com/xhGuTS6TH9kAAAAC/good-burger-kel-mitchell.gif
By their nature, techbros are exclusionary toward women/other genders.
So, no gender-neutral term is necessary.
What a ridiculous take
You’re saying there’s no women at all perpetuating enshittification, corporate surveillance, social media propaganda, and targeted advertising? Literally not a single woman, among the hundreds of thousands of people working in tech?
I’d argue that Elizabeth Holmes fits the bill as a female tech-bro.
Women who work in tech are wayyy more likely to be victims of techbros than actually be techbros.
Ok, that’s completely irrelevant
Identity policies at work.
It doesn’t matter what you do, it only matters what labels do you have.
Elizabeth Holmes?
Tech-hoe
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