yeah, the “information wants to be free” and the other two are completely different people….
it’s more like, 3 different kinds of tech people:
also, i’m going to call this “tech-bro” thing sexism… women are awesome in tech and the field can be very exclusionary… just because society has been keeping women out of tech, doesn’t mean you can just assume they’re all bros….
also check out unixsocks… they’re definitely not bros….
“Techbro” is a specific name for a subsection of the tech population who have become complete douche canoes (much like the middle and right people in the image). The crypto/AI/whatever people. These people are mostly male.
All kinds of awesome people work in tech, but they are not considered “tech bro”, just cool tech people.
“information wants to be free” is a hacker expression… it deeply offends me to see that attached to tech bro.
and women are fully capable of being douche canoes, as well as being strong positive or negative forces in tech. You’re mostly seeing males in this role BECAUSE of sexism… acting like they’re just naturally mostly male is reinforcing that.
there is a huge problem with sexism in tech.
I could be wrong, but I think “tech-bro” as a term isn’t meant to apply to everyone in tech. It’s mean to capture the intersection of tech people and “bros” – the kind of guy who likes football or something.
Of course that’s just what it’s meant to be; if people use it for all men in tech then yeah it just becomes a sexist and luddite terminology.
I’ve heard that “argument” about a lot of slurs. Do you think any non-tech person is involved or interested enough to make any difference between the good tech-males and the bad tech-bros? Besides, why would there be a problem with a guy who likes football?
BTW. Men are not the victims of that slur. The subtext is that good girls don’t do tech. Or if they do, they at least don’t make waves. They don’t invent things, become rich tech CEOs, or anything else that someone might find objectionable. They can become artists and make pretty things, or authors and write about their feelings; that sort of thing. You know, girl stuff.
it was originally the intersection of Joe Rogan, raw meat enema, bro world with tech… but as the term spread, it’s now just a derogatory term for anyone into technology….
but the other person who responded to you put it better….
Tech-Bro is an almost exclusively male subsection of people in Tech, who think that
A. Tech solves everything
B. As people doing Tech, they know everything
C. Any non-tech attempt at solving something is bad.
yeah, the “information wants to be free” and the other two are completely different people….
it’s more like, 3 different kinds of tech people:
also, i’m going to call this “tech-bro” thing sexism… women are awesome in tech and the field can be very exclusionary… just because society has been keeping women out of tech, doesn’t mean you can just assume they’re all bros….
also check out unixsocks… they’re definitely not bros….
“Techbro” is a specific name for a subsection of the tech population who have become complete douche canoes (much like the middle and right people in the image). The crypto/AI/whatever people. These people are mostly male.
All kinds of awesome people work in tech, but they are not considered “tech bro”, just cool tech people.
“information wants to be free” is a hacker expression… it deeply offends me to see that attached to tech bro.
and women are fully capable of being douche canoes, as well as being strong positive or negative forces in tech. You’re mostly seeing males in this role BECAUSE of sexism… acting like they’re just naturally mostly male is reinforcing that.
there is a huge problem with sexism in tech.
I could be wrong, but I think “tech-bro” as a term isn’t meant to apply to everyone in tech. It’s mean to capture the intersection of tech people and “bros” – the kind of guy who likes football or something.
Of course that’s just what it’s meant to be; if people use it for all men in tech then yeah it just becomes a sexist and luddite terminology.
I’ve heard that “argument” about a lot of slurs. Do you think any non-tech person is involved or interested enough to make any difference between the good tech-males and the bad tech-bros? Besides, why would there be a problem with a guy who likes football?
BTW. Men are not the victims of that slur. The subtext is that good girls don’t do tech. Or if they do, they at least don’t make waves. They don’t invent things, become rich tech CEOs, or anything else that someone might find objectionable. They can become artists and make pretty things, or authors and write about their feelings; that sort of thing. You know, girl stuff.
I did not say that men are the victim, though I don’t dispute it either. I said it’s sexist. I also didn’t say it was a slur.
Anyway, I hear my friends in tech use the term a lot. They aren’t referring to white-hat hackers, they’re generally referring to vapid entrepreneurs.
Adult girls are called women.
precisely
it was originally the intersection of Joe Rogan, raw meat enema, bro world with tech… but as the term spread, it’s now just a derogatory term for anyone into technology….
but the other person who responded to you put it better….
Tech-Bro is an almost exclusively male subsection of people in Tech, who think that A. Tech solves everything B. As people doing Tech, they know everything C. Any non-tech attempt at solving something is bad.
This isn’t a sexist term.