The "Brogrammer" is nothing more than the "Other" that certain people in SF likes to project all their unhappiness into, because they are unable to think very critically about social issues in the city. Lazy thinking. I've met maybe 2, my entire 6 years living in SF as a programmer. CEOs, finance, sales, marketing is where the actual SF bros are. When someone complains about the "brogrammer epidemic" it's not unreasonable to claim they may have some issues of their own they are dealing with.
> The "Brogrammer" is nothing more than the "Other" that certain people in SF likes to project all their unhappiness into
The "Brogrammer" is largely fictional. (Though I really did work for "the original metro-sexual brogrammer" in Houston, but he was an anomaly!) However, the kind of disingenuous othering and aggression perpetrated by the fictional "brogrammer" is done by many in the tech community, just with different trappings. (Which makes such behavior harder to see for what it is. We are all conditioned to seeing that as "the good guys" striking a blow for something.) So you may read my comment like this: "The real brogrammer epidemic is programmers and tech workers in general succumbing to the effects of affluence and privilege." Also: "The real brogrammers look and sound nothing like brogrammers. They look and sound like us!"
