I have no idea what you are on about. I have no idea what “Small Developer Energy” is supposed to be and I have no idea what I’m supposed to have been “triggered” about.
My point remains the same and has nothing to do with stereotype threat. I have no opinion on that whatsoever. But you never addressed my actual comment in your reply. Your reply has nothing to do with what I was commenting on.
Your experience with a bad interview is not unique or special and has nothing to do with your gender.
In your post, you assert that you have no doubt that the interviewer would have found your answers “valid” if they come from a man. That statement alone says more about your own bias than anyone else's.
Do you have any experience interviewing for a job in any other body than your own? I would suspect not. And that is the point. Your point of view is limited just like everyone else's. Doesn’t make you wrong, but it also doesn’t make you right.
What it comes down to is you had a bad interviewer. You did poorly on the interview and thought you did better. Welcome to the club. That is not a unique experience to you or to women. Anyone who has interviewed for multiple jobs has had that experience. There are tons of terrible interviewers, especially in tech. Thousands of people sit through interviews with “gotcha” questions and interviewers trying to prove how smart they are. You don’t need to be “underrepresented” to have had that experience. Literally, everyone who has been doing this for any length of time has had that experience. Race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, has nothing to do with it.
Instead of reflecting on how you could have done better, you convince yourself that the interviewer was biased against women. That is not helpful for yourself. If that is your reaction to every setback in life you will never grow as an individual. If you are teaching “students” that it is easier to blame shift to others you are doing those students more harm than good. Yes, you will encounter bias when looking for a job, but that shouldn’t be your first go-to answer for why you didn’t get a job.
Instead of teaching your students that this experience is somehow unique because you are a member of an underrepresented class, you should be teaching them that this is a common experience for everyone. Your experience with a bad interview is not unique or special and has nothing to do with your gender.
The fact of the matter is, you might have just given bad answers or given the impression that you are difficult to work with and don’t take feedback well are disorganized, or lack attention to detail. He might not have been biased against women, just biased against difficult people.
