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Technical Women and Women-in-Tech

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To be fair, they often do pretty damned well at what they do, and the women doing this work deserve to be respected as leaders, but none of this takes away from the fact that when women-in-tech aren't being kept at a junior level or pushed out of the field entirely, we're told that the only way for us to advance in tech is to move into lower-prestige, stereotypically feminine roles. Hence, we see black men being disproportionately held responsible for sexism and predatory behaviour, and while the accusations sometimes have substance, an awful lot of the time they just don't(read about Emmett Till for a particularly brutal example of this dynamic at play). Beyond all of this, having to constantly be hyper-aware of our vulnerability to being used in this way is exhausting, and will burn a woman out like nobody's business: we all have a responsibility to better ourselves and to not perpetrate privilege and oppression, but humans are fallible, limited creatures.

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