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> “His academical record”

Here at the General 1950s Engineering Corporation, we hire clean-shaven men who did well in college, are dedicated breadwinners for their family, and killed at least five enemies in the war.

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I get the joke, but it's not like that. We have a few metalheads in the office. They did kill their fair share of dragons in video games.

I appreciate the ambiguity of your reply because I was expecting it to be “It’s not like that, we do hire women” — but instead got: “It’s not like that, we do hire metalheads.”

I do get your point, but are you under the presumption there are no women metalheads?

Being a woman who attends metal concerts, the scene in the USA is 90% guys. It's significantly more gender-skewed than programming is

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