Alice wrote:
> ...(and at that age we all know what that usually means)...
Actually, we--being male in this instance--don't.
> The second problem is an immediate issue of geek girls feeling alone and
> being abandoned.
How so?
> Whatever we hear about geeks being antisocial introverts,
> it simply isn't true.
>From my experience, I would tend to agree with this. However, what leads you to say
>this?
> As esr wrote in the cathedral and the bazaar a lot
> of open source software development can be traced to gaining peer approval
> (as well as the scratch an itch stuff). The effect our peers have on
> shaping us is both well researched and depressingly strong. On an
> individual level the idea that those poor lasses are still suffering as I
> think many of us did/still do is appauling. And this is even forgetting
> the wider issues of a society losing half of its potential.
I wonder if Raymond's analysis isn't too broad, and so, meaningless. I haven't read
CAB in its entirety, so I'll get back to you before I say more.
abs
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