"You're ignoring the fact that men and women have different interests"
You're implying that men and women have the same interests? Not in the United States, but I don't know what country you're from, so it might be different where you are.
...you shouldn't generalize human beings like that [generalizations, tantrums]
Hey, what did that strawman ever do to you? Who said they wanted to keep girls out, aside from a couple of AC trolls? Oh, yeah: nobody. Nobody said that. Nobody implied it. You completely pulled it out of your ass because you're not actually cut out for this. Generalizations are necessary when talking about a big picture, like an entire society. Most people involved in the discussions understand that, and that there are naturally going to be exceptions to whatever generalization is being made. You'd have to be a god damned tool to take offense at that.
Now if you'd piss off back to Jezebel.com, or just shut the fuck up and let the grownups talk, we would all really appreciate it. Thanks.
So making leveling the playing field is punishing those who received unearned advantages WITHOUT working for them?
Yes. EVERYBODY wants to secure a good future for their children, grandchildren, and so on. Why should anybody feel guilty about that? You have it hard today because your parents were held down their whole life? Well, that sucks, but *now* you have the ability to secure a future for your own children. Instead of moping around about shit that happened in the past, do something about the future.
But this is not about leveling the playing field; it's about increasing the pool of applicants with the end goal of depressing wages. See also the current lawsuit against several tech giants, including Google, the Great White Hope for getting more women into IT, for colluding to not hire each other's employees.
One thing that I find very telling about this initiative and others like it is that none of these efforts to increase the number of women in IT ever state why that goal is important. Why is IT better for women than whatever other career path they choose? At my college, 73% of my class was female. They had to major in *something* in order to graduate; why does it matter that it wasn't IT, as long as they're happy with the fields they chose?
And that, is a lie, we both know it.
No, it isn't. You might have to work longer and harder to get to where you want to be, but if you think life is easy for *anybody* but the super-rich, then you're just plain delusional.
But you and the other MRAs
So anyone who uses logic or points out hypocrisy is an MRA? Poison the well much? You might want to check your address bar; this is slashdot.org, not jezebel.com.
why is it that 90+% of the developers I've worked with, spanning some 20 years, are male?
A better question would be, Why do you even care about the gender of your coworkers? Aren't you just there to work? Or are you hoping to hook up with someone on the job? Seriously, explain this. As far as my coworkers go, I don't give a single fuck what demographics they belong to, only about their level of competence.
refuse to accept it unless security is improved
Who would decide the point at which security had sufficiently improved, though? The chip-and-PIN system used in the civilized parts of the world is, of course, much better than magnetic swipe, and *should* become prevalent here in the states. Unfortunately, it would cost billions to upgrade the US's entire infrastructure to support it, and I honestly don't see anyone picking up the tab for any part of such an upgrade any time soon.
That's going to change next year.
Incidentally, 2015 is also the year of Linux on the desktop.
Your computer account is overdrawn. Please see Big Brother.