Don't worry, I'm with you. I may be a woman, but when I log on to Slashdot, I expect to hear about news in the tech industry in one form or another, or something of interesting relevance. "Hey, a girl I'm dating made a computer with me watching", somehow, just doesn't cut it. At least not for my expectations. I'd rather have a slow news day with a lack of news items, than a day that requires stupid posts to prove that it's a slow day. I don't know about you, but I have better things to do with my time: If not, I could always browse blog sites for that kind of crap.:)
I'm a girl. I build and rip apart computers all the time. And every time I do, MY girlfriend is always bugging me to let her get in there with the screwdriver! Maybe I should write up a story and take some pictures: "The lesbian geek couple mess with computer innards!" Oooohhh.
Speaking as a woman trying to get into the IT field (I am intending to take the A+ Certification exam in a couple weeks), I just don't see what the problem is, at least not yet. People are people are people. Look at race: I don't even look at someone and register "That person is black" or "That person is Asian", it's just "Person. Gawdy clothes." and the like. Maybe I've been lucky in that I haven't run into alot of discrimination, or maybe I'm just naive and the world will smack me good when I apply for my first tech job. But honestly, I expect more out of the geek world. It's been my experience that in general, the geeks are more intelligent, more open minded, and less prone to the whole discrimination thing. I've loved computers my whole life, since I first sat infront of one when I was like 5 (1990). I'm good with computers naturally, I think like them and understand how to work with them, and more than that, I just ENJOY working with computers. Because of that, I am really good working in this field. Does the fact that I have breasts make me less likely to do the job well? Hell no. If you want to tell that, pull apart my brain, because what's in the bra certainly won't tell you. -- Embrace your fellow geek, whoever they may be! Well, unless it's Dilbert. Now THERE'S a disturbed personality, you know just the other day.......
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Don't worry, I'm with you. I may be a woman, but when I log on to Slashdot, I expect to hear about news in the tech industry in one form or another, or something of interesting relevance. "Hey, a girl I'm dating made a computer with me watching", somehow, just doesn't cut it. At least not for my expectations. I'd rather have a slow news day with a lack of news items, than a day that requires stupid posts to prove that it's a slow day. I don't know about you, but I have better things to do with my time: If not, I could always browse blog sites for that kind of crap. :)
I DID mention pictures.
I'm a girl. I build and rip apart computers all the time. And every time I do, MY girlfriend is always bugging me to let her get in there with the screwdriver! Maybe I should write up a story and take some pictures: "The lesbian geek couple mess with computer innards!" Oooohhh.
Speaking as a woman trying to get into the IT field (I am intending to take the A+ Certification exam in a couple weeks), I just don't see what the problem is, at least not yet. People are people are people. Look at race: I don't even look at someone and register "That person is black" or "That person is Asian", it's just "Person. Gawdy clothes." and the like. Maybe I've been lucky in that I haven't run into alot of discrimination, or maybe I'm just naive and the world will smack me good when I apply for my first tech job. But honestly, I expect more out of the geek world. It's been my experience that in general, the geeks are more intelligent, more open minded, and less prone to the whole discrimination thing. I've loved computers my whole life, since I first sat infront of one when I was like 5 (1990). I'm good with computers naturally, I think like them and understand how to work with them, and more than that, I just ENJOY working with computers. Because of that, I am really good working in this field. Does the fact that I have breasts make me less likely to do the job well? Hell no. If you want to tell that, pull apart my brain, because what's in the bra certainly won't tell you. -- Embrace your fellow geek, whoever they may be! Well, unless it's Dilbert. Now THERE'S a disturbed personality, you know just the other day.......