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Discussion on: If She Can See It, She Can Be It

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Albrecht Scheidig

And by "national" you mean the USA, I guess? I support women in tech and the idea of gender neutral education / media, but I don't support the omnipresent writing style of US folks that ignores there are other countries in the world.

Or maybe dev.to is mainly for US? Then I say sorry and drop my account.

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Aditi Chaudhry

Yes I meant the USA when I said "national." When I originally presented this talk, it was based on my experiences growing up in the US. I didn't mean to ignore the other countries in the world, I was simply writing about what I know. I've edited the post with the hope of clarifying this. Thanks!

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Albrecht Scheidig

Thanks for clarifying, I appreciate. Maybe my comment sounds way too harsh, please don't take it as an offense. I also think that most writers do not willingly ignore other countries, especially not in the DEV area with open minded folks, but nevertheless it is sort of annoying and I took the chance to express my annoyance.

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hkly • Edited

FYI you can see at the very top that this article wasn't originally published to dev.to (it was first published on Medium), so its audience may differ than dev.to's target audience.

Edit: Grammar fix.

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Albrecht Scheidig

Thanks for pointing out, but Medium has an international audience too, at least this is what they are saying about themselves (medium.com/about):
"Medium taps into the brains of the world’s most insightful writers,..."