Red Team, Blue Team: the Only Woman On the Team

ancientribe writes "Cyber security pro Kerstyn Clover in this Dark Reading post shares some rare insight into what it's like to be a woman in the field. She ultimately found her way to her current post as a member of the incident response and forensics team at SecureState, despite the common societal hurdles women face today in the STEM field: 'I taught myself some coding and computer repair in probably the most painstaking ways possible, but my experiences growing up put me at a disadvantage that I am still working to overcome,' she writes."

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TFA= so much bullshit

[callmetheraven]

I'm so sick of women crying because (generally speaking) their gender hasn't bothered to learn technology. Qualified women get hired before qualified men. Cry me fucking river you Blue/Red Bitch!

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[cayenne8]

I saw things she said like this:

"The amount of times that I tried to venture in and explore something and got pushed or scared off"

. She used words like "worried and scared" multiple times.

WTF? Is this something inherit in girls? I mean, most guys I know, if they find something that interests them, there is nothing that would frighten them, scare them about doing it (unless maybe that interest was juggling 'live running" chainsaws).

I think maybe this is the problem, that women are worried about what the world thinks of them, how things or people "feel", when it comes to interests, hobbies or jobs.

This just doesn't seem to even enter the picture in general with men.

Frankly thinking like that seems 100% alien to me, and hence it really stood out whilst reading her article.

Scared to be interested in computers? Seriously?