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I could be wrong, but I think "tech-bro" as a term isn't meant to apply to everyone in tech. It's mean to capture the intersection of tech people and "bros" -- the kind of guy who likes football or something.
Of course that's just what it's meant to be; if people use it for all men in tech then yeah it just becomes a sexist and luddite terminology.
I've heard that "argument" about a lot of slurs. Do you think any non-tech person is involved or interested enough to make any difference between the good tech-males and the bad tech-bros? Besides, why would there be a problem with a guy who likes football?
BTW. Men are not the victims of that slur. The subtext is that good girls don't do tech. Or if they do, they at least don't make waves. They don't invent things, become rich tech CEOs, or anything else that someone might find objectionable. They can become artists and make pretty things, or authors and write about their feelings; that sort of thing. You know, girl stuff.
Adult girls are called women.
"Good girl" is an idiomatic expression. Often, as in my comment, it refers to an abstract concept of femininity and not to adult women or any person at all.
I did not say that men are the victim, though I don't dispute it either. I said it's sexist. I also didn't say it was a slur.
Anyway, I hear my friends in tech use the term a lot. They aren't referring to white-hat hackers, they're generally referring to vapid entrepreneurs.
precisely
it was originally the intersection of Joe Rogan, raw meat enema, bro world with tech… but as the term spread, it’s now just a derogatory term for anyone into technology….
but the other person who responded to you put it better….