---
title: "Tailwind and the Femininity of CSS"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/tailwind-and-the-femininity-of-css-cyybxky-i
source_url: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/tailwind-and-the-femininity-of-css
type: article
source: "thoughbot"
published: 2021-12-15T00:07:09.237Z
updated: 2026-03-15T04:50:38.869Z
tags: ["css", "general-programming", "tailwind-css", "webdev"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 14
comments: 5
language: en
---

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# Tailwind and the Femininity of CSS

**[thoughbot](https://daily.dev/sources/thoughbot)** · 4 min read · 14 upvotes · 5 comments

## Summary

Critiques of CSS utilities and frameworks such as Tailwind are often met with bandwagon attacks from its community. The general consensus around CSS is that it’s not a valuable language to learn. Many self-proclaimed full-stack developers don’t know how to write good and/or modern CSS.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@mohamedhakem** · 5 upvotes

> # One thing you said:
> "That heavy lifting, unfortunately, doesn’t account for the human time and care needed for things like accessibility."
>
> It's no longer a valid argument to make since radix-ui.com show up recently.
>
> # Also,
> Most developers don't like working with/writing CSS because it's 1) hard "simple but not easy," maybe some would argue it's harder than python or JS, 2) no one is forcing (making it a priority) them to learn/work with CSS and actually use it since there's a lot of alternatives: CSS-in-JS, Material, Bootstrap, and Tailwind, to name a few.
>
> But that's not exclusive...

**@bencun** · 5 upvotes

> > So when it comes down to the root of the problem, perhaps it isn’t CSS itself but our unwillingness to examine our sexist ideas of what is worthy in web development.
>
>
> What?
>
>
> CSS is just a purpose-specific language that people don't want to invest themselves into - just like I don't want to invest myself when it comes to stuff like Java but I like investing into CSS.
>
>
> What a forced article...

**@ignusg** · 4 upvotes

> I have to say this article seems to try mixing apples with pears and then pondering over why it does not taste like a lemon.
>
> CSS is a great language and I pretty much used it solely in a lot of projects in the past. No frameworks attached. It’s beautiful and there’s a vibrant community (eg. YouTubers like Kevin Powell and co).
>
> But Tailwind should not be labelled a crutch used by developers who “don’t understand CSS”. It should not be learned without first learning about CSS, that’s a valid point. This problem is however not Tailwind specific. The same goes for React over JS, jQuery over JS...

**@lorezz** · 0 upvotes

> It seems written by an artificial intelligence, however, I always approve of those who reflect on the hyper-hyped tools we consume

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