Re:It's not that there aren't enough girl hackers.
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I'd say that all you nerd-boys that have been saying that there are not enough good-looking geek-girls have missed a point. Ever looked in a mirror? The prototype of ugly and unattarctive geek-girls does also apply somewhat to the other sex. Ihave seen many coders, and most of them have been stupid, ugly and very unattarctive nerd-boys, with whom I wouldn't even consider having any forms of sex with. Think about that...
I think the biggest problem is, that the roles of man and woman are still too strong. I mean, I'm not a feminist, or something, but when somebody tells you from your early childhood that computers are men's things, and you must not touch them, you get a feeling that you don't like them, it's psychological to deny something you can't have.
In school it was pretty much the same thing. The elitistic attitude of the boys , who didn't let us girls near the computers, was also annoying. If by chance you found a computer, the boys gathered around you and said that you couldn't do anything right. Which was propably true... If you could do something else than read your email or chat in Geocities, you were labeled a stupid geek, but if a boy could do the same, he was only good (and maybe a nerd-boy).
I say these things have a meaning when somebody asks why there aren't so many geek-girls, or even geek-friendly girlfriends. Now I am one myself, but it took time to learn that computers don't bite...
You said it is dangerous... I don't know. The (mad?) scientists can control how "intelligent" they make these new computers, or so I hope. I think it's not good if the computer starts to make his/her own decisions about what I want to do... And tell me, where goes the line between a computer and a living being? Or a thinking being? Remember, "I think, so I am."
By the way, what about clonage? Have you thought about that? Now, that's frightening...
If they don't fit into the film, so what! In every film there must the little cute animal(s), that gives something to complain for the audience, or they'd start to complain about the film. This because people are never happy.
Besides, the ewoks are cute, and if I wouldn't like to live with them (this for my boyfriend;), I still can watch the movie and feel happy about them.
If you others are so adult, try to remember how it felt to look at a cute little animal when you were 5 years old!
So far as I understand, this new should be a trilogy...
And "A New Hope" was made more than twenty years ago, and we all were much more smaller then. The technology of movie-making wasn't so advanced, so we don't expect so much as today...
We are seeking the feeling that we got when we first saw Star Wars, and shout like a spoiled little kid when we can't achieve it...
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I'd say that all you nerd-boys that have been saying that there are not enough good-looking geek-girls have missed a point. Ever looked in a mirror? The prototype of ugly and unattarctive geek-girls does also apply somewhat to the other sex. Ihave seen many coders, and most of them have been stupid, ugly and very unattarctive nerd-boys, with whom I wouldn't even consider having any forms of sex with. Think about that...
I think the biggest problem is, that the roles of man and woman are still too strong. I mean, I'm not a feminist, or something, but when somebody tells you from your early childhood that computers are men's things, and you must not touch them, you get a feeling that you don't like them, it's psychological to deny something you can't have.
In school it was pretty much the same thing. The elitistic attitude of the boys , who didn't let us girls near the computers, was also annoying. If by chance you found a computer, the boys gathered around you and said that you couldn't do anything right. Which was propably true... If you could do something else than read your email or chat in Geocities, you were labeled a stupid geek, but if a boy could do the same, he was only good (and maybe a nerd-boy).
I say these things have a meaning when somebody asks why there aren't so many geek-girls, or even geek-friendly girlfriends. Now I am one myself, but it took time to learn that computers don't bite...
By the way, what about clonage? Have you thought about that? Now, that's frightening...
If they don't fit into the film, so what! In every film there must the little cute animal(s), that gives something to complain for the audience, or they'd start to complain about the film. This because people are never happy.
Besides, the ewoks are cute, and if I wouldn't like to live with them (this for my boyfriend;), I still can watch the movie and feel happy about them.
If you others are so adult, try to remember how it felt to look at a cute little animal when you were 5 years old!
And "A New Hope" was made more than twenty years ago, and we all were much more smaller then. The technology of movie-making wasn't so advanced, so we don't expect so much as today...
We are seeking the feeling that we got when we first saw Star Wars, and shout like a spoiled little kid when we can't achieve it...
Sad but true.