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>why have women been almost intentionally excluded from IT until relatively recently?

I have never excluded women. Also IT, tech, hackers are not interchangeable terms.

>Do you mean "good" for people in general, or "good" for you?

I meant good for hackers. People with a certain world view, goals and sense of humor.

>When you say "we are being invaded," who is "we"?

Again, hackers. We never cared for race nor sexuality.

>who is doing the invading?

Control freaks.

>They're not trying to control your thoughts, they're trying to get you to be less of an asshole.

If anything, this rules make it easier to be an asshole.

>by whom?

Not sure, people who care more about a narrative of justice than technical hacks.

>When? Depending how far back you go, The hacker culture attracted a very specific type of person. It was self-selective, so they themselves had similar cultural norms.

I guess that the startup scene made us popular, which tends to attract the sort of people who like guidelines, rules and control.

> There are going to be growing pains, but in the end, diversity is a good thing, right?

I just do not see why we need rules. Specially rules we are not expected to bend.

This reads like a 4chan teenager's manifesto. a bunch of nerds in their basements

How can you talk that way and the next moment talk about fostering inclusion?

This is a throwaway account. I feel we are being invaded. The culture we used to have didn't cared about isms or whatever you want to call them. It developed through text were it hardly matter who was on the other side of the connection, only skills and thoughts mattered. Those were the good old days, when we were free.

Now we are being invaded. We, like every other culture in the world, are ask to not use certain language and not have certain thoughts. If we do not comply, we are heretics. Only they don't use that term, they rather use some ism.

The wheel of history is repeating. The control freaks still want to control, they just changed one set of sins for another.