> Yesterday, I was sitting on a tram heading into town. It's school
> holidays here, and a couple of teenagers - female - sat beside me.
>
> I spent some of the trip listening to them matter-of-factly discussing
> computing, the chronic viruses on the school computers, the means they
> use to combat that, their home computers and the problems they're having
> with them, the means they use to combat _that_.......
>
> They weren't geekish girls. Their other discussions involved
> traditionally 'teenage girl' topics. But they matter-of-factly discussed
> medium-deep tech things. Their underlying automatic assumption was that
> _they_ would be the ones who solved technical hassles in their lives.
You know, i wonder sometimes what people think if me when i'm sitting in a
public place like this looking young and not looking geeky (this *does*
happen occasionally :P) talking to other not-so-geeky-looking young female
friends about technical topics. I get the feeling sometimes that older
non-geek men who seem to be listening are a little threatened by the fact
that we young women can know so much more about computers than them. Then i
think ... "Suckers ..."
:-)
~Christian
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> How _WONDERFUL_! I was walking on clouds all day. :)
>
>
>
> Jenn V.
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> you miss out on by being a geek?" - Dancer.
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