this relates to a thing that I'm curious about, if it's cultural or a broadly human thing or whatever. But there's the idea that a) there is an objective measurement of "more or less qualified" and b) only technical skill/talent/effort should or could matter regarding that measurement. Like, if someone believes that there is a measurement that indicates that they have the most knowledge and skill as a javascript developer, then there is no valid rationale to hire another person over them or even give some other person oversight responsibility to them or their work. Probably choosing sw devs as an example is bad because that's such a type, but I think it's widespread and maybe particularly among males this belief that there is an objectively correct choice or ranking in that type of scenario and that there is a specific kind of merit that is the only thing that can count. And that thing is such fertile ground for breeding misogyny and racism, which of course is why it is used to do that. It's the same thing as... asserting that Yngwie Malmsteen or some other technically proficient instrumentalist that makes niche music for fans of instrumentalism is a better musician than (obvious example) Taylor Swift when almost any metric you might use to meaningfully determine that (pointless and meaningless) distinction would give you the opposite conclusion.