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Support in the same way extremist groups "support" disenfranchised young men by telling them how to buy guns and build bombs while confirming all their beliefs about who's keeping them down with propaganda.

I bounced off a tech career track because of all the sexism and, for lack of a better term, "bro shit" in the classes.

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> I bounced off a tech career track because of all the sexism and, for lack of a better term, "bro shit" in the classes.

It sounds like you let a group of 'bros' decide your career track. The world is full of shitty people both men and women, you can't let their behavior drive yours.

Doesn't seem like it's much different anywhere along the way after that. I did look. I only get one life. I didn't want to waste it in a field with no interest in changing. Very little seems different ~15 years later.

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