First of all, for those of you who decided that Indianapolis is an evil little town full of racists and Republicans...umm, well, you're not WRONG. A bit overzealous in your attack, but not totally wrong. I moved to the Pacific Northwest two months ago and you'd have to kill me to get my body back there on more than a visiting basis.
Second of all, this is a step that was taken in Indianapolis for a **political** reason...not a completely random attack on your beloved gore games.
Indianapolis has a new mayor (new as of November...still new). Indianapolis has a new DEMOCRAT mayor. Indianapolis has a new Democrat mayor for the first time in something like 30+ years.
This is a guy who wants to make a good impression on the Republican voters of his state. Plain and simple. Soldier of Fortune and its friends have made the headlines one too many times, and they've become the perfect sacrificial cow for Indianapolis politics.
A Republican mayor probably wouldn't have bothered. He wouldn't have needed to do something visible. A Democrat mayor did, and boy, did he ever pick a hot topic.
As for the guy who said he doesn't get carded in bars in Indiana, he's never set foot in Bloomington (home of Indiana University), where the bars carded (no kidding) my 80-year-old grandparents.
I tend to think that, given more exposure to technology, most girls would pick it up as often as men do.
I've been doing various "geeky" things all my life -- good at math, had a Commodore 64 in 2nd grade, and so on. On the other hand, more than one of my male friends has introduced his girlfriend to our heavily-geeky crowd, and it *always* results in her taking a much stronger interest in technology, sometimes to the level of wanting to program herself.
And I don't know if it's just me, but having dated one geek man, I found that other men -- of any sort -- didn't measure up. I'm marrying a geek.
Yeah, it's not much of a statement, is it? In case men haven't noticed, women think of *all* men, not just the real geeks, as "geeky guys".
It's not the geeky atmosphere that's keeping women out of technical jobs. Any woman who's interested in it is going to go for it (and probably appreciate the geek men, who are liable to treat them more like equals than others...at least I've certainly found that to be true).
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First of all, for those of you who decided that Indianapolis is an evil little town full of racists and Republicans...umm, well, you're not WRONG. A bit overzealous in your attack, but not totally wrong. I moved to the Pacific Northwest two months ago and you'd have to kill me to get my body back there on more than a visiting basis.
Second of all, this is a step that was taken in Indianapolis for a **political** reason...not a completely random attack on your beloved gore games.
Indianapolis has a new mayor (new as of November...still new). Indianapolis has a new DEMOCRAT mayor. Indianapolis has a new Democrat mayor for the first time in something like 30+ years.
This is a guy who wants to make a good impression on the Republican voters of his state. Plain and simple. Soldier of Fortune and its friends have made the headlines one too many times, and they've become the perfect sacrificial cow for Indianapolis politics.
A Republican mayor probably wouldn't have bothered. He wouldn't have needed to do something visible. A Democrat mayor did, and boy, did he ever pick a hot topic.
As for the guy who said he doesn't get carded in bars in Indiana, he's never set foot in Bloomington (home of Indiana University), where the bars carded (no kidding) my 80-year-old grandparents.
I've been doing various "geeky" things all my life -- good at math, had a Commodore 64 in 2nd grade, and so on. On the other hand, more than one of my male friends has introduced his girlfriend to our heavily-geeky crowd, and it *always* results in her taking a much stronger interest in technology, sometimes to the level of wanting to program herself.
And I don't know if it's just me, but having dated one geek man, I found that other men -- of any sort -- didn't measure up. I'm marrying a geek.
It's not the geeky atmosphere that's keeping women out of technical jobs. Any woman who's interested in it is going to go for it (and probably appreciate the geek men, who are liable to treat them more like equals than others...at least I've certainly found that to be true).