A major bank had a bug in their system that triggered multiple postings of transactions in all of their clients' accounts. When they found out the root cause, they just had to mention that the programmer was a female. Like that was any bearing to the problem. It's not like they have like a whole fucking team of QA testers that should have checked that shit before it went to production.

I see your point, but at the same time, if it were something positive and they didn't mention it was a female, chances are you'd be upset.

Personally, I think race and gender are fucking irrelevant to what someone accomplishes, but it's all about publicity at this point.

If they used a pronoun who cares, if they went out of their way and used, 'woman' or 'female' or 'lady' etc then I see your point

Would be interested to see the public statement when I googled it just gave some news stories about a woman who was robbing banks.

If it were very specific like "a woman did this" then yeah, but if it were just in passing by using "she", "her" etc. there's no problem!

Seriously people? In no way is this okay, and there is no way they would've explicitly said "male programmer" had it been a male. This is blatantly obvious sexism, don't try to minify it or reduce the severity of it, be upset and angry instead.

@quine ~90% of devs are male. Maybe less, maybe more. That's not the point. The vast majority of devs are male.

Our brain behaves very lazily because it's optimal that way. When I ask you how much is 2+2 you can immediately say "4" because you're hardwired. If I ask you how much is 14*27, you have to actually THINK. Well, the vast majority of our lives is done in the first state - giving answers and conclusions intuitively - how we're hardwired to do.

So we're hardwired to see patterns, to associate.

When we say "dev", we associate the image of a male, with a beard, glasses, cargo shorts and some funny T-shirt. I'm a dev and I'm not like that but that's how I see it as well.

So whenever there is a problem, people look for who to blame. It's counter-productive most of the times, as we all make stupid mistakes. But when they find who to blame, they don't just blame the person, but the outstanding attribute that sets them apart from the stereotypical dev.

Well guess what happened.

@quine ALL humans behave like this. It's not something one could "fix" about themselves, or something to blame people for. Telling people not to do that is the same as telling people not to under-estimate projects.

So no. It's not sexism, because it doesn't discriminate sex overall. As soon as at least 30-40% of devs were female, then this would automatically disappear. Sexism would be "we don't want you on our team because you're a woman". But blaming individual attributes is natural and always happens.
Any significant deviation from the norm will be blamed for this. Whether the dev is abnormally young, or old. Whether the dev doesn't behave like a dev, or doesn't look like one.

Your conclusion for instance is a prime example of the representativeness heuristic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So you saw something that clicks a few boxes on your check list and BAM! Immediately identified without a second thought. You're committing the same fallacy.

Men don't make bugs

@jhh2450

Sorry but I think the first part of your reply is nonsense. Like, you have less than 0 clues/"proofs" in support of that statement.

About the second part, if that's what you think then I think the only possibile reaction to this rant is "Man, this is sick".

@Gilpow It's not the only reaction. I'm sick and tired of everyone emphasizing gender and race (especially when they bitch because it's not mentioned on something good, then bitch when it is mentioned on something bad). Everyone is all about equality and unity, but bitch when it's not the equality or unity they want. People are natural hypocrites, and it's fucking annoying as hell.

@jhh2450 So by saying "chances are you'd be upset" you implied "chances are you're an hypocrite"... without a single clue about that, for that person. K.

@Gilpow "People are natural hypocrites." Every. Single. One. Of. Us. Have a nice day, but please just drop it.

@jhh2450 So you actually meant 100% of people, not "the majority of people". That's...funny but ok LOL Have a nice day.

Confrontational, ha? Why is it not surprising one little bit?