I don't understand why this post has anything to do with encouraging young girls to enter science and engineering fields. Rather, I read this as the musings of

I don't understand why this post has anything to do with encouraging young girls to enter science and engineering fields. Rather, I read this as the musings of someone who doesn't like their current job and doesn't feel very comfortable around the stereotypical engineer type. To that end, nothing in this blog post is specific about why you [the author] feel it's necessary to discourage leveling the gender ratios in our field. I understand that [male] engineers more often than not make disparaging remarks, talk non-stop about the latest (or sometimes the oldest) technology, and are overwhelmingly socially inept, but this is not a reason to stop trying to get more women into STEM. In fact, I strongly believe in the contrary: having more women in the tech industry will greatly improve working environments, reduce the social awkwardness about being a woman in this field, and make the field that much more interesting. In the end, my take away from this post is exactly opposite from the purported thesis. The author's experience leads me to believe that we should absolutely be encouraging young girls to enter tech. Yes, it might be painful and lonely now, but if you start scaring girls instead of encouraging them, nothing will ever get better. We're engineers; our jobs revolve around building efficient systems by finding the weak points and fixing them. A major weak point in the engineering system itself is a lack of women. This needs to be fixed. [Edit for typos]