Your comment has nothing to do with his/her point and also has no place in this discussion. You're trying to use an identity attack to dismiss the point.
It's a sexist alt-right meme because they associate soy with estrogen. In this imagined causality, someone who consumes soy milk would be more feminine, and of course women are bad programmers.
Don't make me laugh. "Alt-right" is a stupid, nonsensical term made up by news corporations to serve as a convenient boogeyman, and the meme itself isn't sexist in the slightest. Elevated estrogen levels in men ARE detrimental for numerous reasons. This has nothing to do with women, period.
Soy is associated with elevated estrogen levels because of phytoestrogens. Whether or not they actually affect the human endocrine system isn't clear, but you can't deny the customers of Soylent products all share... similar traits.
Could you try to explain the link to soy milk? When I think of people who order soy milk, I think they are likely to be lactose intolerant, which then I would associate with being less likely to be northern European ancestry, which then I might associate that with likely to be harder working and maybe marginally better developers, so I’d guess the relationship might be opposite to your suggestion.
Full disclosure I’m 100% northern European ancestry, 42.75% English, 37.5% Irish, 6.25% Danish. Plenty of hard working developers with similar ancestry to me, neither the less, the stereotype would be Asian developers are harder working, certainly the bosses often think that, to the point that I’ve observed what I would categorize as pro Asian biases.
Anyway, I’m guessing soy latte ordering is likely positively correlated to developer performance. Not negatively as you suggest.
As a reader I did not know but it made me laugh since it tied in with a stereotype I may have had. I can speculate this to be gen X or whatever who is more concerned with the politics of doing work and fringe benefits than doing the work itself.
Riley Rojas/Jay Ersapah at SVB is a perfect example here. That was a real shitstorm - spend a lot of time on DEI/LGBT/ERG issues, spend very little time doing productive work.
