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@alcinnz@floss.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

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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Carbon Dysphoria | deadSimpleTech

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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@alcinnz@floss.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

Yes, I too thirst for these metaphorical construction jobs. But I do see value in the interior decorating work, after all a computer isn't of much use if it doesn't communicate with us!

And even more so I feel driven to be honest about the work I do, I get a knot in my stomach when I don't have the impression my coworkers are.

And to be clear in regards to my gendering: I'm saying that's how I see it viewed, I don't see this gendering as all that real!

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