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Dev has never been free of gender and racial issues, let alone politics. What a blissful existence it must be to have a world where people don& #39;t diminish your creds and abilities due to your race, gender, or other "politics" the moment they find out you& #39;re not a white dude.

Even when I try to actively avoid these, there& #39;s always someone (a dude) who turns things into a gender issue.

I want to code things; some misogynist chuckle head insists that women only care about "pretty" things and assumes I don& #39;t understand math.

I took calculus.

I legit had to explain once how I knew the calculations on a project was misleading, brought in two print offs from Excel for comparison... and had someone email me a freaking calculus formula for why I was wrong.

He then emailed me back saying that his formula was wrong and I was right.

This person routinely talked down about my work on UX/UI is being too "customer service" oriented and repeatedly tried to refer to me as a "non-technical" employee in mtgs.

I& #39;m a front-end developer.

So let& #39;s stop pretending that tech isn& #39;t political and that it doesn& #39;t have race and gender issues. I acknowledge that some people haven& #39;t experienced it, but the issues don& #39;t not exist because they haven& #39;t.