This Man's Heavily Sexist Comment About Women In Coding Is Being Called Out, And Rightly So

A tech YouTuber who goes by the name of 'TechLead Patrick Shyu'?is being called out for tweets targetting female programmers. An ex-Google and ex-Meta employee, Shyu spoke about how women shouldn't do coding, and that programming wasn't meant for them.

In a sexist Twitter thread, he revealed some highly berating stances and regressive judgement that is outright hazardous to society.

"They (women) come back obsolete & outdated"

He wrote, "Women shouldn't code... perhaps be influencers/creators instead. It's their natural strength.Coding is a brutal 24/7 job, mutually exclusive with motherhood - after 9-months maternity leave, they come back obsolete & outdated. Elon Musk even says birth rate is falling too much."

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"No one wants to see a pregnant woman on the battlefield"

While comparing tech and coding directly to motherhood, he shared his thoughts on how women who choose this career are "fools". He also used the very outdated analogy of how "no one wants to see a pregnant woman on the battlefield," thereby reducing a woman's entire identity and purpose to that one act of birth-giving.

"A woman should prioritize being a good mother and wife"

"We asked for women influencers and instead got “independent women” in pants suits. Independence does not exist if you want a family. A woman should prioritize being a good mother and wife, not a coding machine. “Mother/Wife” is a great job,” Shyu wrote.

"Cannot recommend coding to any woman"

To top it, he justified and said, "I'm just giving a voice to all the silenced mothers who were forced out of their jobs.Tech is hostile to mothers. We need to acknowledge that.When we do, we can create change (like part-time remote work).As it is, I cannot recommend coding to any woman."

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Twitterati is enraged

When it came to these tweets, his argument was met not only with female opposition, but also with so many men who were equally enraged by this man's unabashed misogyny:

Patrick Shyu is a US-based engineer and has been running a tech youtube channel. Earlier, he was a software developer,?former tech lead?and?software engineer?at?Google?and?Facebook,?and a YouTuber.Reports have revealed that Patrick ‘TechLead’ Shyu, was earlier fired from his job at Facebook, as the company didn’t approve of his youtube channel.

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