# Echoes of the Past - Tech is Still Not Equal for All

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Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://eevis.codes/blog/2025-03-10/echoes-of-the-past-tech-is-still-not-equal-for-all/>)

Author: Eevis Panula

Published: 2025-06-11T04:16:25.278000Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Eevis Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/eevis-blog.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>)

Tags: [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [dev](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dev.md>), [tech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tech.md>), [video](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/video.md>)

## AI overview

The author continues a personal account of being a member of a gender minority in tech, discussing changing social conditions, the importance of the We Coded campaign, and hostile or sexualized comments received on related blog posts.

## Source excerpt

This is a submission for the WeCoded Challenge: Echoes of Experience Earth has traveled around the Sun, and it's time for the We Coded again! I've been waiting for this for a year because I have things to say. I planned parts of this blog post a year ago, so it's been a long wait. Little did I know then how the situation would change in a year. With all the things happening in the US, the fast rise of far-right ideologies in Europe, and the attacks on many minorities, including gender minorities, it's even more important that such campaigns as We Coded exist. In the past years, I've shared my experiences as someone from a gender minority in tech, and I decided to continue with that this year, too. It's been a heck of a year, and I can share only a fraction of what I've seen, but even that is too much. Oh, and this year, I decided to try out something new and recorded some of the experiences as a video. It's embedded at the end of the blog post. Blog Post Comments So, first, some blog comments I've received. Many are from last year's WeCoded post, and some have already been deleted because of misconduct. Let's start with this one person who was first commenting on my blog post at Dev, and then, when they got blocked, they reached out to me in Polywork. So, there's a lot to unpack there, but I'm not going too deep with it. Just note the "other motives"-part. The message from that person on Polywork was this: Again, they're referring to "false metoo" and "expecting special treatment as on Facebook or Tinder". I'm just wondering, what are these people doing at work and in professional circles? Are they looking for a partner because they seem to assume that everything somehow relates to "other motives", which I'm innocently interpreting as wanting to have a relationship. But most likely, sex plays a part here, too. And the thoughts about sex don't stop there. I cross-posted the same blog post to Medium, and it got boosted and attracted many eyes. Blake (this was the name