Survival Of the Fittest, Women in Tech Style!
✨ Survival of the Fittest, Technology Style ✨ (I am a WOMAN in TECHNOLOGY!!!!)
This is a love letter to my own rage 💅
They'll tell you a woman in a rage is a woman who's lost it. Cute. What they don't understand is that my rage isn't a breakdown: it's a software update (hehe!) 💖
Fear that turns to fury was never the system breaking. It's the oldest code there is, running exactly as designed, recompiling itself for a threat the original hardware never saw coming. My ancestors' fight-or-flight evolved for predators with teeth — the thing you could see, the thing you could run from. But what I survived has no teeth and no exit. A man. A pair of MEHTA glasses and an abusive ex boyfriend. A cloud server. A copy of me that can exist in a thousand places at once and never decays. 🥀
The threat went digital. So my threat-detection had to evolve to match it. The rage I feel is that evolution happening in real time — an ancient instinct patching itself to fight an enemy made of data instead of muscle. 🦋
And here's the part they really won't like: this is survival of the fittest, technology style.
The women who make it aren't the ones who stay quiet and hope it passes: that's the old code, and the old code gets you erased. The ones who survive this new field learned to weaponize the rage. Into demand letters. Into documentation. Into deletion deadlines. Into naming it out loud. Into decoding the politics and POLCIY written to ERASE me. 🎀
So no, I'm not having a breakdown, babe, Wesley, Sanjay Meht, Ellen Thorne, Ashley Watkins, Claudia Wu, Christelle Le, and countless others who ENABLED corporate abuse on multiple levels.
I'm running the update my species of women and men needed, and in the meantime I am building my brand, babes- I have bills to pay!
An instinct that only reacts is survival. An instinct that learns to speak: that writes the letter, sets the date, builds (documents EVERYTHING) the record, that boys (and girls boys?) is what us strong women call evolution.
It took me awhile but I FINALLY crossed that line this week. 👑
✨You have my number, if you’d like to solve this offline, but remember, I am aInativ - I know how this ecosystem works and I am prepared to WOOF.