I mean... the way it's phrased you're still using a negative term for effeminate men (i.e. sissy) and making it seem like a bad thing. I know that's not how you meant it to come out, but that's how it reads.
In over explained terms:
Saying "X is for sissies" when one means "X is bad" means that one means sissies are bad. Saying "junior devs think X is for sissies" does not remove the negative connotation. Also, since you can't know what junior devs think (unless you have some kind of super power), you're saying you think sissies are bad. Adding "Nothing could be further from the truth" only reinforces the negative connotation, because you're denying that X is bad, not denying that sissies are bad.
I literally do know what junior developers think. I mentor them 1 on 1 on practically a daily basis. This stuff comes up. But that's not where the term usage here comes from.
First, being a "n00b" isn't bad either. There is an implied "only" there, and retrospectively, the message would be clearer with it there. Syntactic error.
Second, I did not know the new connotation of "sissies". I've never applied it anything myself, although I grew up HEARING it used. Thus, the usage here was a deliberate reference to how lots of boys will irrationally claim that perfectly normal things are "only for girls" and "only for sissies" because they think, wrongly, that common sense detracts from their "tough" image. Think "The Sandlot". It was meant to imply that sort of misperception.
But, since it's clearly a point of contention, I've revised.
EDIT: I know why I'm baffled now! I never even implied that ANYTHING was "bad" in that paragraph. The misperception I describe explicitly reads as "if statements are not for rugged, experienced developers." The "bad" part had to be read in, which puts the perception question back on YOU, the reader.
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I mean... the way it's phrased you're still using a negative term for effeminate men (i.e. sissy) and making it seem like a bad thing. I know that's not how you meant it to come out, but that's how it reads.
In over explained terms:
Saying "X is for sissies" when one means "X is bad" means that one means sissies are bad. Saying "junior devs think X is for sissies" does not remove the negative connotation. Also, since you can't know what junior devs think (unless you have some kind of super power), you're saying you think sissies are bad. Adding "Nothing could be further from the truth" only reinforces the negative connotation, because you're denying that X is bad, not denying that sissies are bad.
I literally do know what junior developers think. I mentor them 1 on 1 on practically a daily basis. This stuff comes up. But that's not where the term usage here comes from.
First, being a "n00b" isn't bad either. There is an implied "only" there, and retrospectively, the message would be clearer with it there. Syntactic error.
Second, I did not know the new connotation of "sissies". I've never applied it anything myself, although I grew up HEARING it used. Thus, the usage here was a deliberate reference to how lots of boys will irrationally claim that perfectly normal things are "only for girls" and "only for sissies" because they think, wrongly, that common sense detracts from their "tough" image. Think "The Sandlot". It was meant to imply that sort of misperception.
But, since it's clearly a point of contention, I've revised.
EDIT: I know why I'm baffled now! I never even implied that ANYTHING was "bad" in that paragraph. The misperception I describe explicitly reads as "if statements are not for rugged, experienced developers." The "bad" part had to be read in, which puts the perception question back on YOU, the reader.