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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.'"
You're right. Stereotypes are pretty funny. I often joke with my black co-workers about how if valuable stuff is left out they'll probably steal it!
No, it's not funny. It's "Dur hurr, boys like toys and girls like pretty things" dressed up. Oh, and a healthy dollop of "Tailor yourself to appeal to your man, don't try to have an equal meeting of people with differing interests". It's gender stereotyping, and guess what? There are quite a few ladies out there who know and LIKE geek stuff. There have been for ages (half of the committee that created the first Star Trek convention was women, for example). The stereotypes about the male geeks aren't much better - yes, they can actually dress decently, and no, they aren't all handymen around the house. Hell, they even threw in a line about women having too many shoes.
Women aren't techno-idiots, and male geeks aren't social morons. Leave the stereotypes in the ground.
-Signed, a woman who games, has a customized laptop, and a model of the Enterprise-D bigger than your head. (Picard - because starship captains should talk you out of your pants, not into airline tickets.)