Reading @iris_meredith 's recent blogpost: https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon_dysphoria
In a bit of a tangent: It strikes me that drawing comparisons to gender dysphoria might be a great way to talk about how often my fellow software devs reach for tools like React when simpler & more-maintainable tools could do the trick.
To use a building a metaphor: We're trained & recruited for manly construction work, than channeled into feminine interior decorating jobs. Which far too often I see us demean.
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And now the punchline: this depersonalisation, the weird relationship to their bodily existence, inability to enjoy things and an internal void that people constantly try and fill with what they're told they should want... all of these things are very similar to the experience of gender dysphoria.
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