Yesterday was "future day", it's a day where kids aged 10-14 accompany their parents to work to learn about different jobs which is actually a great idea.
This morning was a bit slow, and since I don't have internet access at my work computer, I'm stuck to the intranet and a few whitelisted websites, mainly websites from my company.
So I open the company's twitter page to look for the newest propaganda and there's a tweet with different vids from yesterday's future day. In one of them, an old hag which looks like some kind of diversity hr person talks about how "IT unfortunately still is a male dominated sector" and that this is the reason they made a special girls only workshop for future day to teach them about IT. Then you see them opening up a pc case and modifying html code to change colors of fonts, backgrounds etc ...
That made me think about my own childhood. I first had access to a computer at 8 years old, 2 years later we finally got a slow af internet access and when I was 13, I was already creating advanced scripts for counterstrike and later I learned html and js on the pc I that I built myself from scratch.
I did this all on my own without any help because I've always wanted to make my life easier and scripting/coding gave me the opportunities to do that plus it's a great feeling when you overcome problems and create something that works exactly like you wanted.
Then she's talking about how it's still very much male dominated and that they really want to change that.
This really made me angry because she's basically saying fuck you to people who are good at something, we'll prefer the person that is still at a lower level of competence despite all the support and unfair advantages they got only because that person has a specific gender ...
But guess what ? Maybe there's just certain people who are much more naturally inclined to understand things that are based on logic and we should create genius from talent and not waste ressources to try to push the weakest link from mediocrity to barely average skills ?
If everyone really was equal, surely there would be a 50/50 gender distribution in every area because talent and motivation is evenly distributed ?
But if that was true, there wouldn't be only 1 woman out of 32 people in IT training like she's saying in the interview. This also reflects my experience with our company's IT department. We have to call an internal hotline whenever there's an IT problem and about 90% of the 1st level support people seem to be women. Everything that's a bit more complicated than resetting a password takes at least a 15 minute explanation for them to even understand and then after another 10-15 minutes of fruitless attempts at solving the problem, they usually give up and have to escalate to 2nd lvl support which then usually solves the problem. Coincidentally, they're 99% male and seem to understand much faster what's happening ...

Once I had a real bitch on the phone who insisted that the bug I reported in the software I use every day was actually a feature. After I had explained to her for half an hour that this wasn't possible, I had to threaten to make an endless stream of phone calls and tickets if she wouldn't connect me with the expert for that software.
Turns out I was right and the developer fucked up and they had to uninstall the latest update on all company computers that were running the software and downgrade to an earlier version ...

Anyway, sorry for the long rant, I'm just angry that everything gets fucked up because of muh diversity ...