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AMD Offers Women Geek Dating Advice
Blacklaw writes "It appears AMD has decided to branch out from integrated circuits and enter the romance market with a handy guide for girls to land themselves a geeky guy. From the article: 'In a blog post written by Leslie Sobon, the company's vice president of marketing, Sobon describes her life in the largely male-dominated world of technology as being "mostly surrounded by guys all day," but says: "I can tell you that — in general — technical guys are pretty cool," and offers advice on how girls can land a geek guy. Although clearly meant in a lighthearted way, Sobon's missive serves to patronize both her company's customers — who, we learn, are socially inept and bad dressers — and women, who apparently can't understand technology and need to find a nice man who can "fix the TV, your PC, and the sprinkler system" along with other magical item s far too complex for the poor female brain to comprehend.'"
The problem is that you guys are still stuck inside the bubble. Try seeing yourselves from a different perspective.
I'm not a social retard like you. That must be the problem.
Yes, a lawsuit was specifically mentioned in the comment that started this all. Your claim of "no one said anything about a lawsuit" is completely false. Read the original comment and weep. Specifically, the part where he says "he'd be sued for sexual harrasment as well". I suggest you read more carefully before commenting -- this is just embarrassing to have to read the comment to you.
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Well, let's say you're a woman working as a software developer, and you've put in some long hours and built a really good library that will make your software system much more solid, and when you go to show it off to your coworkers it's obvious that what they're thinking about (or worse, saying) is "nice rack", not "nice code".
Really??? That's a serious problem? People thinking you are hot? Give me a break!
I don't even know what to say. I'm trying to think of how it's bad to be considered pretty, or handsome in my case. I would love if girls looked at me and were distracted, rather than concentrating on the boring ass code I'm talking about. I'm really trying to picture it. "Jesus stdarg, those regular expression sound so interesting! You are so smart! Oh you weren't even talking about regular expressions?" *staring dreamily into my eyes* "So umm what are you doing after work anyway?" Yeah I'd be so depressed at that job!
I guess I would tell your hypothetical hot coder that she should start valuing *herself* for what she knows is good code. Be proud of your work. Don't expect everybody else to stop being human. And it's perfectly okay to relate to your coworkers as humans, not cogs in a machine producing some webapp.
To me it's far more serious that ugly people are discriminated against, than that hot people are... appreciated for their hotness. That's ridiculous. And the discrimination for ugliness applies to men as well as women.