Look. If you're a woman, you have lots of allies rooting for you to succeed in an industry and profession that's indisputably biased against you.
But especially as a white-presenting woman, maybe have the decency to not flaunt the exorbitant privilege -- not just socioeconomic and racial, but that of the multiple forms of affirmative action offered to you in certain corners -- as if it's a product of your effort or virtue.
> Two weeks after I graduated my coding bootcamp, I had an offer. Two weeks after that, I started my first engineering job at a small startup.
> Here are some of the strategies I used.
This is Randall Kenna:
https://randallkanna.com https://testandcode.com/guests/randall-kanna
Look. If you're a woman, you have lots of allies rooting for you to succeed in an industry and profession that's indisputably biased against you.
But especially as a white-presenting woman, maybe have the decency to not flaunt the exorbitant privilege -- not just socioeconomic and racial, but that of the multiple forms of affirmative action offered to you in certain corners -- as if it's a product of your effort or virtue.
This is a close kin to a mediocre white guy.
Appalling tone-deafness.