I hear your strong feelings here, but "character assassination" seems a bit hyperbolic, don't you think? Your experience makes sense from a certain perspective, but have you tried assuming instead that folks with different experiences than you are (for the most part) not participating in this discussion in bad faith? Try asking yourself why SO is only 7% female1 while professional engineers are 26% women2.* Listen to/read accounts of women's experiences on SO, think about what it exactly means to be a "beginner" in a particular programming topic, etc.
I concede that there is some conflation with geography/gender/sex here, but I don't think that detracts from the point
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I hear your strong feelings here, but "character assassination" seems a bit hyperbolic, don't you think? Your experience makes sense from a certain perspective, but have you tried assuming instead that folks with different experiences than you are (for the most part) not participating in this discussion in bad faith? Try asking yourself why SO is only 7% female1 while professional engineers are 26% women2.* Listen to/read accounts of women's experiences on SO, think about what it exactly means to be a "beginner" in a particular programming topic, etc.