>Maybe it's possible that there are plenty of people out there who care about "ephemera", and yet are also capable of programming a computer or soldering things

>Maybe it's possible that there are plenty of people out there who care about "ephemera", and yet are also capable of programming a computer or soldering things together? Did you even read the article? The point she made is that feminists are trying to "fix" the gender ratio in tech by expanding the definition of hacker to people who have no idea what solder even is and have never printed a hello world in their life. >dismissing behaviors that she doesn't find valuable (in her words: "ephemera -- popularity, beauty and fitting in"). These things are in no way relevant to producing good code. They're completely orthogonal. >Are we defining "hacker" to include only people with bad social skills and no interest outside of technology? The only person putting forth that argument here is you.