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from the article: Grant Viklund, who is married to board member Sophia Viklund and serves as a volunteer mentor, says PyLadies matters not because its
by earl 15y ago
from the article:
Grant Viklund, who is married to board member Sophia Viklund and
serves as a volunteer mentor, says PyLadies matters not because
its members are women but because getting more people into programming
is a good thing overall.
[...]
Still, if you ask Viklund, 37, to conjure up an imaginary computer
programmer, he admits that he sees "a big, fat guy with a beard,
who might smell" -- the kind of "classic Linux nerd" who might have
trouble socializing but who loved computers long before geek became chic.
It's strange that someone who actively helps a group that exists to help women be comfortable and draw women into programming trades in such nasty stereotypes of male programmers.