The problem with this hypothesis is that it doesn't explain why woman have been so successful in fields like law and medicine, where they not only faced blatant discrimination, harassment, and discouragement from their peers, but also institutional barriers. Yet women fought through all of that and prevailed. So if you think that "discouragement" is the explanation, you need to explain why it only happens in tech.

Perhaps because law & medicine are centuries old fields and there has been ample time for this to have happened, whereas "tech" is fairly young still.

Islam is petrified of people who think, because thinking people will see it for the racist, facist, evil, misogynistic, hateful, backward pile of war-mongering nastiness that it truly is.

When you make it about one religion, you pretend that it is the only religion with nutbag extremists. It's not. You could replace "Islam" with "Christianity" or a handful of other religions and the rest of your sentence would remain true. Just bear in mind that there are plenty of people in each of those religions who are not afraid of people who think, and are fully committed to being peaceful, productive members of a modern society.

Christians & Muslims get judged a lot by their religion because many people of those religions judge others a lot. Turn-about is fair play.

It's article 16 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

I wish people like you would quit pretending it doesn't exist.

I can see the resume now:

Work history:
2003 - Present
Didn't get out of bed because nobody would pay me enough.

Ya... I'd hire 'em... </sarcasm>

...imagine a beowulf cluster of these!

I guess this sense.

No, clearly he is referring to them working from their yatch -- which probably makes more sense anyway.

This was the first thing that came to mind for me, too. There's no way any researcher worth a snot would take a sample from one comet and claim that all comets must be like this.

That's simple. Clearly there is still air in your head.

I don't want any citizens police or otherwise driving tanks down the street. Our streets here in Michigan are bad enough just with the weather, we really don't need tanks tearing them up!

That was my thought when reading this, too. What's the hack? Usually a hack (at least in this context) is where you take something meant for one purpose, and make it work surprisingly well for another purpose.

Yes, so really a sticker rather than a tattoo.

Well, I certainly didn't claim that it doesn't happen (so I'm not sure why I got modded flamebait).

it's one thing to have a woman shaving your nether regions in preparation for a surgery or giving you an enema (or similar), but some dude doing it to you introduces a bit of mental discomfort in guys

I can't say I've had to have something like this yet, but it seems to me that this situation would have plenty of mental discomfort regardless of the gender of the technician. When you had your last physical, was the physician the same gender as you or the opposite? Did you care? Why would the gender difference not matter for the doctor, but would for the nurse?

I don't know what you're talking about. I've never had a woman ostracize me because of my choice of career. In fact it's usually a huge plus because I'm in a hot industry and am financially stable. I suspect in this example that you're getting ostracized because of your personality, not because of your career choice.