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  • College students that think they’re being bullied most likely attribute normal behavior to bullying

    This. The specific problem my alma mater ran into was all the conservative students saying they were getting bullied, and when asked how they were bullied, the response was basically “People disagreed with me and now they don’t want to hang out with me!”

    Sometimes I wonder if they’d actually been bullied, if their tune would’ve been different…





  • Yeah…this is going to be a super unpopular opinion, but there needs to be a designated distro for new users who aren’t sure what to go with. If someone asks “What distro should I-” the rest doesn’t matter. We just agree on one distro and that’s it. Once they have a reason to look for another distro, they’ll have the knowledge to find it themselves.

    You have to make the first step easy.






  • Note: I’m writing from an American perspective - sorry if this doesn’t apply to your situation.

    I know this is literally a 3 month old post but: I’m a transman programmer. I’m still at the job I initially came out at, and things are great - everyone uses my correct name and pronouns. It’s been two years since I came out at work and I’ve been here seven years. Higher Ed seems to be a very good place for transpeople right now, particularly private sector higher ed. Public higher ed can be dicey depending on your state - there’s talks of banning transpeople from working with children in my state, but that would only apply to public.

    The other posters already covered a lot of reasons you might not see a lot of visible FTM men in tech, but an additional one is that our…uh…background tends to push people like us away from tech. At least in the US, there’s still a major gender gap in how science and especially tech are taught. I was lucky to get into a lot of girl exclusive science camps, which helped prepare me for being the only “girl” in non-gender-specific camps. I was the only person of my gender to attend the robotics camp that launched my love of programming for the 6 years I attended, and once I hit college, there were only two girls (including me) in my entire computer science program. Then you figure that a small percentage of AFAB people end up being transmen, and we end up being a minority of a minority.

    Additionally, anecdotally, at least in my area, FTM individuals tend to be poorer and/or from poorer families than MTF individuals. That can lead to a big gap in professionals, because it can take a lot of money, sanity and support to get started.

    I don’t think any of those are reasons to be scared of going into tech - it’s not like it’s an awful death trap and that’s why everyone avoids it. It’s just a leftover product of societal norms that are slowly changing.






  • Adramis@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoRunning@lemmy.worldThe pain is real
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    1 year ago

    Not a runner, but for me the feeling is that I can workout for 364 days a year, but if I miss one single day, then the habit is broken and it takes the willpower necessary to move a fucking mountain to get back to the gym after that. It feels like I don’t built habits no matter how many times I do it.

    It’s still necessary to rest, but the fear is legit.