Coding Like a Girl

Her definition of inappropriate feedback from the article:

“Why are your slides so pink? It’s very distracting.”

“Stop pushing your hair behind your ear when you present. It’s very distracting.”

“Your voice goes up after every sentence you say.”

and comments rating my appearance.

While comments rating your appearance are OBVIOUSLY unaccpetable, the others are not gendered comments.

If your slides for a presentation are not similar to other slides and presentations, they're non-uniform. That's distracting.

Having your hair styled in such a way that it demands periodic attention during a presentation means it's not work appropriate. Nothing to do with gender. I'm a male and had to change my hairstyle for work.

I get criticized for my voice's intonation not changing very perceptibly (it does, it's just very low), because it's not pleasing to the ear and takes away from the content of what I'm saying.

In short, while this article does make some good points, it also seems to operate on the assumption that what is perceived as professional should not apply across both genders.

Also:

Another thing that feminine-presenting women and non-binary people have to deal with that other people in tech don’t have to: the tightrope walk of professionalism & fashion when deciding what to wear to interviews or presentations.

I guess all men or "masculine-presenting" people only own boring strictly-business attire, and no articles of clothing that could go either way. I actually just had to listen to a 10 minute rant from one of my gay friends about this point, it wasn't going to be part of my post before.

While I'm expanding from the initial scope, once I got further down, the references to the patriarchy made it abundantly clear that there's a lot of victim complex going on, which presents itself more and more as the article continues.

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