A great hack gets its praises sung for days on end with white male geek communities.
If you post the same code to a woman group, you get a cold curt "yeah, it works, thanks,whatever."
Not a single dissection on how brilliant the code is, or how great the hack is.
I completely agree..! I work in the engineering dept. of a big company and have a mostly male peer group. I am also the engineering web publisher for my Business Unit and sometimes I work with a female programmer on web projects. During our last project we made an Oracle database web-application that does a lot of neat stuff IMHO.
Most men who I tell about the web-app are supportive of future projects and excited about what we made. But most women don't care or don't understand it.
The most difficult and harsh people I ever had to deal with (online or in the workplace) have been women.
I think it is because most women in technological fields don't know how to deal with OTHER women in the same field. It is as though most women in non-traditional fields view other women as a threat to their special-ness.
I wish women in online tech communities and OTHER communities would support each other more instead of being discouraging or apathetic.
Most of my male geek friends appreciate my technological enthusiasm (even though I don't know as much as they usually do), while most of my female friends think I'm a freak. If there were more nice female geeks around, the world would be a better place!
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A great hack gets its praises sung for days on end with white male geek communities.
If you post the same code to a woman group, you get a cold curt "yeah, it works, thanks,whatever."
Not a single dissection on how brilliant the code is, or how great the hack is.
I completely agree..! I work in the engineering dept. of a big company and have a mostly male peer group. I am also the engineering web publisher for my Business Unit and sometimes I work with a female programmer on web projects. During our last project we made an Oracle database web-application that does a lot of neat stuff IMHO.
Most men who I tell about the web-app are supportive of future projects and excited about what we made. But most women don't care or don't understand it.
The most difficult and harsh people I ever had to deal with (online or in the workplace) have been women.
I think it is because most women in technological fields don't know how to deal with OTHER women in the same field. It is as though most women in non-traditional fields view other women as a threat to their special-ness.
I wish women in online tech communities and OTHER communities would support each other more instead of being discouraging or apathetic.
Most of my male geek friends appreciate my technological enthusiasm (even though I don't know as much as they usually do), while most of my female friends think I'm a freak. If there were more nice female geeks around, the world would be a better place!
P.S. I want to be a programmer when I grow up..