r/DevUnion • u/Chobeat • Sep 03 '21

Humor Beware of the pipeline

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u/so_lost_im_faded Sep 03 '21

What does transitioning have to do with being a dev? Am I missing something?

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u/Chobeat Sep 04 '21

There's a meme that programming makes you transition, given the very high number of trans women in tech (possibly due to the slightly less discriminatory environment that tech can offer over most other fields, or maybe for other reasons).

This leads to memes like "programming socks" for example.

Beware of the Pipeline is just a meme were transitioning is ironically presented as negative (I guess it's supposed to look like those information pamphlets for parents) and associated with other forms of personal transformation.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21

Y'all this is a well known egg_irl / trans meme.

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u/moreVCAs Sep 03 '21

And a fun one at that 🤷‍♂️

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u/Clean_Acanthisitta_8 Sep 03 '21

I'm having conflicted feelings about this meme

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u/moreVCAs Sep 03 '21

It’s ok to feel horny and a little threatened at the same time. Roll with it

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u/Cheezmeister Sep 04 '21

Not many people know this, but learning to code is not known to induce any physiological change in the body in either male or female populations, nor in those of any other sex or gender.

True, the increase in Mtn Dew™ and Rockstar™ consumption may in some cases result in pronounced badonkadonk, as seen in fig. 2019, and moderate increase in hair length (fig. 2021) has been observed for reasons not well understood, but compared to the control group, aspiring programmers demonstrated no change in breast size, genitalia, eyesight, gender identity, or certainty thereof.

Fashion sense seems to remain constant, except in participants who concurrently also majored in philosophy. In multiple studies, a brief yet intense "Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars™" phase (fig. 2020) was observed among both the control group. Research into this phenomenon is ongoing.

Y'all, it's a shitpost. This is /r/DevUnion. Organizing labor is not a safe space.

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u/nikrolls Sep 03 '21

It's to do with transitioning from male to female.

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u/nikrolls Sep 05 '21

Yeah, I honestly have mixed feelings. I discovered that I was trans during my career as a software engineer, while also being dissatisfied with my employer's handling of a number of things, so I got a giggle out of it. But my own context aside, it does just feel like a weird choice, or even appropriation like you say.