Am I a Sexist?

Most definitely a sexist, yes. Just like your parents raised you to be a "gentleman", their generation was raising women to have absolutely no self-esteem or self-confidence, therefore in need of "saving"

The "good old days" were never good for anyone except the abusers. That would be you. Please think carefully about your values.

> It's hard, it requires a lot of rigid logical thinking, it's rather boring, and it's a constant war against machines and against other programmers who produce unmaintainable and unreadable code.

> I don't feel good about sending women, who I was raised to protect and respect, into this war.

I don't think war means what you think it means.

I was also raised to be a "gentleman". Funny thing though, what I took from it was that it was about respect. Respect for what makes people special. Unique. Respect for their beliefs and choices.

Oh and protection should be reserved for the vulnerable. In my experience vulnerability and the format of ones sexual organs are somewhat orthogonal concepts.

Yes, you are.

Recognizing that women in general have less physical strength than men in general isn't sexist.

Thinking that "women shouldn't play rugby" because of it is sexist.

To me, the difference is that you're thinking a particular woman is physically weaker than a particular (or any) man, and therefore shouldn't do something. But there are plenty of women who are physically stronger than plenty of men.

For instance, despite how strong I am, I have absolutely no doubt that most women who body-build are stronger than I am.

Saying that they shouldn't play rough sports, but that it's perfectly fine for me to, is just plain sexist.

I really hate the excuse "that's how I was raised". If humans only ever behaved how they were raised, then we'd still be living in caves.

Either justify your beliefs or discard them.

In the post war years we have tried out a lot of new ideas about how a society should conduct itself. Yegor's ideas, once common place, now are viewed negatively by many.

I wonder, will the pendulum swing back the other way once we have sufficiently teased apart biological versus cultural influences?

There are differences between sexes and because of this there are some ways that laws etc should treat them differently.

This does not extend to a fucking programming job.

tl;dr author answers his own question at the end with an affirmation. And he is indeed clearly sexist