My Grandma Can Code Circles Around Your Dudebro
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It is not condescending or wrong. It is the truth. Old people and women are bad with technology because that is not their element. They play different roles. Us young people, this is what we engulf ourselves in. I don't have a family, I don't have a 30 year long career to watch out for, I don't run a business, hell, I have zero obligations aside from tinkering with shit all day. They don't have time to sit down, read HN, read Reddit, read tech blogs, and mess around with applications.
It's like me coming to a data centre trying to do sysadmin work right off the bat. I'd be terrible at it. I'd be laughed at if I messed something up. Why? Because it's not my element.
The demographic that is labeled as bad with technology is not "focused", it propagates itself .
What the real problem is, is looking at the world through the lens of equality. You look at every situation and evaluate it's idiosyncrasies and try to level them out. When you notice not everything is aligned (in this case old people and women being on the same playing field as young people), it creates a false sense of oppression and disarray, delusion if you will.
When I read articles I come up with a list of the following and write it down: things I learned, things to lookup, and a list of major points drawn from the article.
My list is blank for this article because it is about nothing. It's an immature, hyperbolic, phantom attack.
And you wonder why women feel that they're unwelcome in tech?!
I can tell the difference.