In article <00021103200805.00500@localhost>, Sunnanvind wrote:
>Just saw something odd on http://www.windowmaker.org that I though we might be
>interested in...
>"In light of a recent article about geek chicks which was posted on Freshmeat,
>I felt it was a good time to renew our call for voluntee
I know that I, as a geek boy, prefer geek chix to "norms". It is so hard to
have an intelligent conversation with your average, stereotypical female,
whereas the geeks can and will talk about everything. Includung, but not
limited to computers, movies, books, etc.
JB
**The geeks shall inher
> Sunnan (geek chicks really politically correct? Oh well..)
Works for me - so long as its meant to indicate 'geek which happens
to have XX chromosomes'. What will we call the guys? Geek blokes?
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's wo
Hmm, I don't think that's quotas... I think it's a good thing (tm). As
Skud said in her article and on this list, one of the best steps to take
is to just plain say "you're welcome, come work on our development team".
Maybe it's because I'm not seeing it all (goes to windowmaker.org), but I
don't
Just saw something odd on http://www.windowmaker.org that I though we might be
interested in...
"In light of a recent article about geek chicks which was posted on Freshmeat,
I felt it was a good time to renew our call for volunteers. The current core
Window Maker team is comprised of males, and t
coder wrote:
>
> Males
> themselves are often codition to view women with a general sterotype..
> sometimes very subtly, and as a second hand effect; other times
> directly, and stated. If there is to be some change is gender roles and
> viewpoints.. it will have to involve the men.
I'd LOV
Sunnanvind wrote:
>
> This is just theories; I'm not fanatic; no angry replies just friendly, please,
> but:
> 1) I think that segregation (if taken to an extreme) will cause big
> differences between genders. Men will act and behave totally different from
> women in that society. If two groups b
Rik Hemsley wrote:
>
> I know at my uni there were hardly any women doing physics, but I
> also know that I didn't talk to most of the people on my Comp Sci
> course because they were a bunch of geeks. Perhaps women were also
> put off the course because of the extreme levels of geekiness ?
> I
