> Harassed and opressed are loaded terms and imply a deliberate attempt > to discourage women. I'd say that most women simply don't want to > work with Neanderthals.
I don't buy that theory. Such a decision would have to be made much too early in life to be based on any cognitive reasoning about the associated social environment. I could go into a counter argument here, regarding the female savior instinct (i.e. how Neanderthals in prisons always seems to end up having female pen-pals, worshipers, wifes etc.) but that's probably not going to move this thread forward. > On its face, this seems like a totally unfair charge. It's a generalization for sure, but don't we always tend to single out the extreme when making points? And do we have more extreme alpha- geeks than those within the open source community? (Generally doing what they do out of no other motives than personal interest.) At least Hans Reiser was not factored into this generalization! :) -- 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
