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How To Encourage Women in Linux
- rubing 18y agoWomen already get enough special treatment. If you register for a computer forum with a female avatar, the amount of attention you get and rapidity with which your questions get answered is inordinate.
- mattm 18y agoComing up next - how to get more men interested in sewing.
- jrockway 18y agoWhenever I join a sewing-related IRC channel, I am inundated with sexual advances because of my obviously-male nickname. This needs to stop, or men will never have a fair shake at being sew-ers. (sewers?) Oh wait, sorry. I was confusing a situation I made up in my mind with reality.
- CalmQuiet 18y agoAnd not all of that attention desirable or even respectful.
- gbd 18y agoTalk about gender stereotyping. This may be shocking but I'm a woman who can sew and use linux. Guess what? so can my boyfriend!
- CalmQuiet 18y agoAwesome situation. I can't do either, but I'd sure rather learn Linux. More power to you.
- jrockway 18y agoThis is really overly sensitive. The word "bitch" is offensive to women? I talk to women all the time that use the word. They don't seem offended by it. Anyway, I don't think anyone on the Internet cares what gender you are. Women just don't seem to be that interested in programming.
- CalmQuiet 18y agoIt's all in how you use the word, I'm sure. As for, "Women just don't seem to be..." types of generalizations... not a place I'd like to go. The same is sometimes generalized about people of my ethnicity; but that doesn't reduce my wish to be received with respect and consideration. Do take a look at all the (women) signatories at the bottom of one of the linked articles in original post. [Several links seem to have gone dead in just the last half hour.]
- jrockway 18y agoAs for, "Women just don't seem to be..." types of generalizations If they were interested, they would be actively participating.