Well, for what it's worth, my 18 month old daughter is a big fan of both mythbusters and Lego :) On 7 Dec 2010 08:24, "Casper Bang" <[email protected]> wrote: > Heard about it a few years ago when Val stopped by for a visit with > pro-podcaster Leo Laporte, where he also gave less than flattering > stories of how it was having Richard Stallman on set hitting on every > X chromosone in sight. However I have to believe this is isolated to > that part of the open source elite who traded in their real life and > the associated social skills, which is not behavior specific to CS. > Having said that, a ratio below 10:1 between male and female is hardly > a healthy thing and so the experiences by Val and others seems like an > symptom of a larger problem, that of gender inbreeding (for lack of > better words). > > I know of conferences (http://jaoo.dk/aarhus-2009/women/) who tried to > entice women to participate by giving them a free pass, but that's > really just symptom treatment rather than focus at the root of the > issue. Part of me wonders if it really isn't genetic and gender > related, many of us male geeks started out career moving from Lego > building to taking moms transistor radio apart, to writing Basic etc. > etc. That seems to stem from some core curiosity trait of wanting to > know how things work and solving problems, something that can be > tracked back to the natural evolution of humans many thousands years > ago; the male was the hunter exposed to critical decision making. > Today we even joke with the fact than women multi-task while men is > only able to do one job at a time. Hmm perhaps worth submitting a > story to Mythbusters about. > > Which is a nice segway, we don't actually need to go into CS to see > this difference in interest. My experience tells me men are much more > inclined to watch an episode of Mythbusters while their lady enjoys a > rerun of "Sex and the City", "Desperate Housewifes" or something > similar. > > On Dec 7, 3:41 am, Chris Adamson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Wow, any thoughts on this, fellow nearly-entirely-male list >> readership? >> >> http://jezebel.com/5705980/women-fed-up-with-open-source-community-cr... >> >> "A feminist programmer describes the culture of the open source >> community as fraught with sexism and discrimination against women >> programmers—and a serious lack of accountability. It's "Geeks Gone >> Wild"—as in, "some computer dudes are like wild animals." " > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> . > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >
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