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   Reg Braithwaite 🍓 (raganwald@social.bau-ha.us)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 03:13:00 JST Reg Braithwaite 🍓

   Holy shit I ❤️ gliding club culture.

   We have a series of lectures going to kick off the season, and our Slack instance is humming along nicely with discussion about one recent topic: Toxic masculinity and how it gets people killed in aviation.

   I think I'm going to steal the deck and replace all the aviation references with software development references.

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     Reg Braithwaite 🍓 (raganwald@social.bau-ha.us)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 03:12:59 JST Reg Braithwaite 🍓

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     One of the precipitating changes in aviation culture from "Pilots can do no wrong" to "Toxic masculinity gets people killed" was a terrible B-52 crash that killed the entire crew in front of spectators.

     This incident marks the moment when the specifics of the pilot's mistake were considered less important than the systemic complicity in the pilot's increasingly dangerous behaviour throughout their career.

     Yes, this applies to tech.
     
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Fairchild_Air_Force_Base_B-52_crash

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     Reg Braithwaite 🍓 (raganwald@social.bau-ha.us)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 08:38:37 JST Reg Braithwaite 🍓

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     IMO, the lesson from this crash is not "Toxic men are dangerous." It's "Toxic masculinity is a system that tolerates and even encourages men to be dangerous."

     If you want to get rid of it, like the strangling vines of Rapunzel's Tower, you must hack away the roots, not the vines themselves.

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