we met on irc two years ago. a month or so later, he flew across the country to take me to a ball. at first, i wasn't sure. before the end of the weekend, we knew... we were an item.
i started flying to cali every 3-4 weekends to see him, while every other night we talked on the phone for a couple of hours. it was hard, esp. with me in grad school. somehow, we kept going. for a year and a half, in fact.
a few months ago, i moved to cali. he flew east to help me on the drive. on the way west, he proposed. i accepted. the ring is beautiful. we live together. our two year anniversary is coming up.
irc sucks now, but i thank god for the days when it was ok, cause look what it brought me.
damn straight. follow his rules, get a bimbo. probably all some of these guys could handle, if that, anyway.
personally, i'm a geek girl with a geek guy and we love each other totally. most geek guys don't have the maturity to understand that women are people, not objects, so in the sea of all these lovely stereotypes and prejudices, i'm glad my jon and i found each other.
i love mine. i have had it (PCG 505fx) since this past christmas. it's flown 55,000 miles with me and gone everywhere. it studied with me. it did my website with me. it was my glorified walkman. it's my absolute favorite toy, and i LOVE the fact that it's so small! my only complaint: more battery life.
i guess we can assume you didn't get harassed on a daily basis, then. what you may call social skills i call brainwashing and herd mentality. all it takes is one "popular" kid to hate another one, and they're toast. i don't follow that. i don't know where people learn to be so cruel, but i usually start pointing my finger at a) human nature and b) school.
then again, i'm a proud mississippi public school system dropout. saving myself three years i would have wasted in HS and going to college instead was worth INFINITELY more than any so-called social skills i could have potentially developed. personally, i am glad i am not an overtly cruel or herd-minded person.
goddamnit. don't you think that SOME of us have our *own* money!? i treasure my fiance's studly sysadminliness far more than his options any day.
it's not unheard of, you know. maybe if you went beyond looking for superficial crap like nice asses you would discover someone with substance. no, i am not saying all men do this. i am just saying.
1) i am a girl and i was there. 2) i danced. 3) lots of people migrated to slob around at the copyleft party and talk to each other because we were tired. 4) the music was fine but the floor was slippery. if you were dancing why the complaint? 5) the real party was all over. if you only stayed at slashdot you only got part of the picture.
unfortunately, all the walking killed my feet in my boots.
overall, i had a really good time and met tons of cool people. let's do it again sometime, shall we?
ha! that's actually almost a really great idea, since there are these basic little truths about femmes that guys just don't understand, and vice versa. maybe a FAQ would be a good thing, too. *picturing it now: HOWTO catch yourself a geekgirl*
nah--i wasn't totally being harsh about it. i don't mind being called a chick, but "chick fest"?? c'mon! anyway, i have plans to be there. look for the black go-go boots.
let me ask you: are beautiful women not allowed to be intelligent? some MIGHT exist, you know.
i have a geek boyfriend. his geekiness is one thing that attracted me to him. but MY geekiness is a big part of the reason that he loves me. i am blonde. and 'english major type'?? i have an english degree. i also have completed two years of grad study in computer science.
>They'll just marry into a higher incom bracket than their intelligence merits.
UGH!!
i can't believe you people. do you still live in the stone age?? believe it or not, but some of us are out here working even though we don't really have to because we want our OWN money.
women aren't greedy on the whole. we're human. when a young girl is scared because she doesn't know what she wants to do with her life, and she resorts to marrying a guy to gain some stability, you KNOW that some of you out there would do the same thing. and some wouldn't.
don't knock us because we have different opportunities, or LACK of them, than you.
and this bitching about an impartial system?? take it from a woman, i know all about that. no, i am not crying discrimination or any of that crap, i am merely saying that impartial systems never exist, and sometimes they work for you, and sometimes they work against you. deal with it.
i still can't get over the premise of this topic. i thought that, if ANYWHERE, fellow geeks would understand what being stereotyped against feels like and would have some compassion for their fellow men and WOMEN. grow a heart!
is there such a lack of women on slashdot that you think you could go around saying this shit without anyone calling you on it?? sheesh.
i thought that was already established. one question: isn't it a little weird that amidala is destined to hook up with anakin, a mere child?? i donno abou that....
that article seems to conveniently forget that there actually ARE fems that are huge star wars fans. it, of course, finds it sensationalism by dragging out the most exagerrated cases. I would never even consider the dating potential of a guy based on his SW enthusiasm, so the he fact can't be denied that i have a slew of SW toys laying around and my boyf likes the movies but doesn't give half a damn.
i was one of those chicks you saw in full amidala face makeup. i was there and i was excited!! my boyf was home trying to get another machine to talk on the network.
it does kinda annoy me that there is only one major female character per episode. honestly, i went expecting amidala to be a token female decoration. fortunately, this was not the case.
the only redemption for this imbalance (for me) is the fact that amidala and leia especially are very strong female characters. there was no demureness about leia; she was as harsh and bitchy as i am in real life. most movies don't portray women in that manner and thus influence the whole female subliminal-guilt-trip-for-being-opinionated thing.
overall, leia and amidala may be rather token due to the fact that there are so many male characters, but they are actually significant in their own right and definitely hold their own.
Slashdot Mirror
me == femgeek.
S.O. == boygeek.
we met on irc two years ago.
a month or so later, he flew across the country to take me to a ball. at first, i wasn't sure. before the end of the weekend, we knew...
we were an item.
i started flying to cali every 3-4 weekends to see him, while every other night we talked on the phone for a couple of hours. it was hard, esp. with me in grad school. somehow, we kept going. for a year and a half, in fact.
a few months ago, i moved to cali. he flew east to help me on the drive. on the way west, he proposed. i accepted. the ring is beautiful. we live together. our two year anniversary is coming up.
irc sucks now, but i thank god for the days when it was ok, cause look what it brought me.
...and they lived happily ever after.
damn straight. follow his rules, get a bimbo. probably all some of these guys could handle, if that, anyway.
personally, i'm a geek girl with a geek guy and we love each other totally. most geek guys don't have the maturity to understand that women are people, not objects, so in the sea of all these lovely stereotypes and prejudices, i'm glad my jon and i found each other.
well guess what? i DO do computer stuff obsessively and my fiance loves it. don't buy into this crap, ok?
don't you get sick of guys proposing to you, asking to see your pic, acting totally surprised that you are female, or even *refusing* to believe that?
don't you get fed up with the stigma? when have you gotten the most frustrated with having to prove yourself?
i, for one, get really tired of it.
i was about to say...
i love mine. i have had it (PCG 505fx) since this past christmas. it's flown 55,000 miles with me and gone everywhere. it studied with me. it did my website with me. it was my glorified walkman. it's my absolute favorite toy, and i LOVE the fact that it's so small! my only complaint: more battery life.
i guess we can assume you didn't get harassed on a daily basis, then. what you may call social skills i call brainwashing and herd mentality. all it takes is one "popular" kid to hate another one, and they're toast. i don't follow that. i don't know where people learn to be so cruel, but i usually start pointing my finger at a) human nature and b) school.
then again, i'm a proud mississippi public school system dropout. saving myself three years i would have wasted in HS and going to college instead was worth INFINITELY more than any so-called social skills i could have potentially developed. personally, i am glad i am not an overtly cruel or herd-minded person.
that's because we're generally taken already.
goddamnit. don't you think that SOME of us have our *own* money!? i treasure my fiance's studly sysadminliness far more than his options any day.
it's not unheard of, you know. maybe if you went beyond looking for superficial crap like nice asses you would discover someone with substance. no, i am not saying all men do this. i am just saying.
1) i am a girl and i was there.
2) i danced.
3) lots of people migrated to slob around at the copyleft party and talk to each other because we were tired.
4) the music was fine but the floor was slippery. if you were dancing why the complaint?
5) the real party was all over. if you only stayed at slashdot you only got part of the picture.
unfortunately, all the walking killed my feet in my boots.
overall, i had a really good time and met tons of cool people. let's do it again sometime, shall we?
can we please please please have wyder's pear cider or something similar on tap?? i love getting sloshed on cider!
ha! that's actually almost a really great idea, since there are these basic little truths about femmes that guys just don't understand, and vice versa. maybe a FAQ would be a good thing, too. *picturing it now: HOWTO catch yourself a geekgirl*
nah--i wasn't totally being harsh about it. i don't mind being called a chick, but "chick fest"?? c'mon! anyway, i have plans to be there. look for the black go-go boots.
bahaha! preach on, sister!
there's a reason you get denied.
it's not because you're a geek, it's because you are an asshole.
one reason i love my boyf is because he's a geek. it's a turnon, not a turnoff.
climb out of your hole once in awhile.
let me ask you:
are beautiful women not allowed to be intelligent? some MIGHT exist, you know.
i have a geek boyfriend. his geekiness is one thing that attracted me to him. but MY geekiness is a big part of the reason that he loves me. i am blonde. and 'english major type'?? i have an english degree. i also have completed two years of grad study in computer science.
stop the fucking stereotyping, people.
>They'll just marry into a higher incom bracket than their intelligence merits.
UGH!!
i can't believe you people. do you still live in the stone age?? believe it or not, but some of us are out here working even though we don't really have to because we want our OWN money.
women aren't greedy on the whole. we're human. when a young girl is scared because she doesn't know what she wants to do with her life, and she resorts to marrying a guy to gain some stability, you KNOW that some of you out there would do the same thing. and some wouldn't.
don't knock us because we have different opportunities, or LACK of them, than you.
and this bitching about an impartial system?? take it from a woman, i know all about that. no, i am not crying discrimination or any of that crap, i am merely saying that impartial systems never exist, and sometimes they work for you, and sometimes they work against you. deal with it.
i still can't get over the premise of this topic. i thought that, if ANYWHERE, fellow geeks would understand what being stereotyped against feels like and would have some compassion for their fellow men and WOMEN. grow a heart!
is there such a lack of women on slashdot that you think you could go around saying this shit without anyone calling you on it?? sheesh.
explain this to me:
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California
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this is true.
still, i wasn't exactly checking out elementary schoolboys when i was a freshman in high school.
*waves hands dismissively* nevermind.
i thought that was already established.
one question:
isn't it a little weird that amidala is destined to hook up with anakin, a mere child??
i donno abou that....
that article seems to conveniently forget that there actually ARE fems that are huge star wars fans. it, of course, finds it sensationalism by dragging out the most exagerrated cases. I would never even consider the dating potential of a guy based on his SW enthusiasm, so the he fact can't be denied that i have a slew of SW toys laying around and my boyf likes the movies but doesn't give half a damn.
i was one of those chicks you saw in full amidala face makeup. i was there and i was excited!! my boyf was home trying to get another machine to talk on the network.
it does kinda annoy me that there is only one major female character per episode. honestly, i went expecting amidala to be a token female decoration. fortunately, this was not the case.
the only redemption for this imbalance (for me) is the fact that amidala and leia especially are very strong female characters. there was no demureness about leia; she was as harsh and bitchy as i am in real life. most movies don't portray women in that manner and thus influence the whole female subliminal-guilt-trip-for-being-opinionated thing.
overall, leia and amidala may be rather token due to the fact that there are so many male characters, but they are actually significant in their own right and definitely hold their own.
movie opinion: great!