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• die sexist jerks;
• programmers can be sexy, too; and
• Hackers: Under the hood: Raven Alder.

• die sexist jerks;
• programmers can be sexy, too; and
• Hackers: Under the hood: Raven Alder.

Unbelievable. Don't let Raven Alder hear you... You don't hear her crying, just the sound of flabby alpha-male geeks getting the crap beat outta them.

As much as I enjoy sex with another woman who's comfortable with herself and who she is, there's no way that it's the only acceptable alternative. (If it were, we'd have a lot of unhappy straight women out there!) Ditto for the female-dominant scenario -- not every woman wants to be in charge of the bedroom all the time, or even some of the time.

You're getting shocked by immature comments on slashdot? Is this your first time here?

Did you actually read the article that Raven wrote and linked to? It was quite insightful...

From this page:

I got seventeen requests for a date, two marriage proposals, three offers for various sexual acts, and a request for naked pictures of me. I also got ten real comments about the technical contents of my post. Et tu, Bugtraq? This asinine refusal to treat female geeks as geeks first is incredibly offputting.

All feminists don't necessarily agree... just like "hacker" can have a whole bunch of different connotations, so can "feminist". And, like many other minority groups, we are often known by our extremists. I think that makes it all the more important for those of us who *aren't* extremists to use the term rather than abandon it.

For clarity's sake, I am a feminist in the "I believe in equal rights" way, not the "I believe in special treatment" way. I do not believe in or condone banning books. (Indeed, my car has a "Read banned books" sticker on it.) And you can see my take on feminism and porn, as relevant to your linked Foucaultian debate, right on my site. [grin] So, I suspect that we largely agree. Thanks for a thoughtful and intelligent comment. It's refreshing.

Feel free to be a self-admitted feminist, but realise that the likes of that group are responsible for banned books in Canada.

Through its decision in the Butler vs. Her Majesty case, the Supreme Court of Canada adopted Catherine MacKinnon's definition of obscenity nearly word for word into Canadian law. This 1992 court decision -- which was vigorously championed by most feminists in Canada and the US -- allows Canadian customs to seize what it judges to be pornography at the border as the material is being imported. In reaching the Butler decision, the Supreme Court acknowledged that it was violating freedom of speech, but it deemed the possible harm that pornography could inflict on women to be of greater legal significance.

Unlike others I generally prefer to keep my opinions of a woman's body to myself. However, I definately can't support any set of ideals that requires mass censorship. I believe that makes me anti-feminist, but moderate.

You, on the other hand, may not be a feminist at all, at least according to that article, although you choose to identify with them.

Pardon me if I came on a bit strong there, but when a select minority-by-choice of people can, at a whim, introduce sweeping censorship laws I get really pissed off.

If you are asking for a change from society's old views of yourself, you might want to avoid clothing yourself in a devil's cloak. In short: Choose a better term than "feminist". I don't believe you are one, and the term carries far too much misandrist baggage for you to be taken seriously.

Hi. It's really nice to know that whatever I can do technically, that it's my cup size that really matters. I'm 28. I do backbone security, incident response, vulnerability assessment, and pen-testing. I work in varying capacities with Nessus, Snort, and the Open Source Vulnerability Database. And fuck you. http://www.oneeyedcrow.net/securitygeekfemme.html

Raven's my coworker. Quite techincally, she rocks. and oh, that tit size comment? ... (a direct quote)

"Fuck you ".

And yes, she's talking about You