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1. pylon fan (sophia@glitterkitten.co.uk)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 05:19:11 EST pylon fan

   The reason tech bro trolling works, even if you are astoundingly egregious about it, is internalized misogynistic presumption of incompetence.

   If a guy makes a joke about Linux, open source, whatever, that's really painfully obvious they're pretending to not know what they're on about, they're not likely to get many responses confronting them. Even if they seriously don't they often don't. Someone hyperfeminine? There's no fucking way they could know what they're talking about.

   1. pylon fan (sophia@glitterkitten.co.uk)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 05:22:03 EST pylon fan

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      This is true of women in STEM the world over, the presumption they couldn't possibly know and so using it as a chance to either flex or white knight.

      "Haha Google is FOSS because I can view source in chrome" is absurd. "Microsoft Windows is FOSS because i didn't have to pay to upgrade." No one is going to call a guy on those.

      The punchline to the entire joke is the guys telling me to shut up because i'm obviously clueless.

      1. pylon fan (sophia@glitterkitten.co.uk)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 05:24:50 EST pylon fan

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         This happens even if you're serious and just talking about it. I started mentioning getting back into computers and all of a sudden, before I even started joking about it, I was getting whole threads telling me what Linux is.
         At one point I got told I should try Ubuntu because debian with xfce could be difficult for me. I'd already mentioned using it for over a decade.