I thought I should go back and actually read the article. My characterization of a nefarious and evil plot was a juuuust a bit exaggerated. It was also unfair for me to call the author a She-Man. I guess that would fall under to "'just' incredibly rude and obnoxious verbal comments."
Read more: http://jezebel.com/5705980/women-fed-up-with-open-source-community-creeps#ixzz17ReOdcOH :) It sounds like accounts that could have happened at any kind of conference. I doubt the open source community is any worse. I'd guess they would be better than most, given the open and agile nature of the industry. On Dec 7, 11:29 am, Scott Melton <[email protected]> wrote: > My 12 year old niece is extremely jealous of her 10 year old brother > who, at the last Cub Scout camp out slept in a tent, had a hatchet and > knife throwing range, a hand built crane and a zip line. The boys get > to do all the cool stuff, she said. She said all the girls do is camp > in cabins and sell stuff. (She neglected to mention the girls slept > over at NASA last month, which was very cool.) > > The problem here is not a nefarious and evil conspiracy by the guys to > hold the women pregnant and barefoot at home, like that activist She- > Man on Jezebel would have us believe. They are just doing guy stuff. > None of the women running the Girl Scouts will make the effort to do > the cool guy stuff. The problem here is the women running the show. > They are constraining the girls to do girl stuff. > > From what I understand about today's schooling, there is no lack of > opportunity like that for either gender. Students can excell at what > ever they are interested in without constraints based on gender. It > has been this way for a long time. Why are there not more females in > computer science? Could it be as simple as boys will be boys and girls > will be girls? > > No amount of political correctness or cross gender engineering is > going to change that. No one should try. > > On Dec 7, 2:33 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 7, 9:30 am, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Well, for what it's worth, my 18 month old daughter is a big fan of both > > > mythbusters and Lego :) > > > Awesome! So there's hope yet :) -- 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.
