*headdesk*

[tim]

From a closed-forum reply to this link about casual misogyny and othering in the tech community:

"Why. WHY does this ALWAYS happen in CS courses??

In college my data structures professor used pictures of the following to examplify members of the class "Object", over and over again throughout the course:

A Lamborghini Diablo

A mug full of beer

A flat screen TV

Salma Hayek

headdesk"

(By the way, when I was majoring in computer science at a historically women's college? None of my professors used such examples. Just sayin'.)

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[ivy]

I just got into an argument about an upcoming party at DefCon, which I am not attending this year. It features busty female dancers who don't know anything about technology wearing little thongs that say "Pwn me". And yet, many of the people in my field are still baffled as to why there are so few women. What a mystery! Aaagh.