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I think you miss the point. I don't think anything was attributed to gender. The two are unconnected, but they both stood out to the author. And if we're being frank, there is an underrepresenation of the female gender in programming. So I take it that, after being in the industry for years, the author is excited to see new developments on the technological, as well as the social, fronts of programming.

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I think we're all excited about the growth of women in programming. But you can bring up a gender without bringing another gender down. This author singles out "overweight, pasty, Birkenstock wearing males" as the reason why a lot of Rails users don't or didn't adhere to tried and true OOP design. As if women couldn't and didn't make the same mistake. Rails was brand new and exciting when it introduced its conventions. It's so easy to look back now and say they sucked. That's how human progression works.

It's an overall ok post but let's cut the gender crap out and celebrate progression (both in doversity and OOP design) in a classy way.

I think there's a lot to be said for tongue-in-cheek humor. Maybe it's not for everybody though.

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