Not a manly thing? They literally call that policy "Operation Eliminate the Macho Effect". And by the way, italics indicate sarcasm.

An annoying smartass is annoying whether they're male or female. I've met both. And yes, these people are foolish to describe it as a "macho" trait, whetever the hell that even means.

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Quite. It isn't. Glad you have no witty comeback beyond a complete lack of an argument.

So? Let's say she hadn't gone into programming for some reason. That means she went into some other field. If she's a good programmer, maybe she'd be a good electrical engineer, or a good math professor, or a good research biologist, or etc. See? There isn't necessarily a "loss" because she didn't join an all-male team of programmers.

Right, so the fact that the area is ofputting is of no concern to the people within the area. I disagree.

either wasn't human or liked being the odd one out by a huge margin. Nice!

Either she liked it or didn't mind. The latter is pretty atypical human behaviour. Not everyone's typical in all regards (thank god), but yeah if you ignore such things then you're dooming yourself to exclude people displaying normal human characteristics.

How about the possibility that the first woman enjoyed the work and didn't have a personality disorder that made her scared of working with "too many" men or being too scared to try things that "women don't do."

If you wish to define typical human behaviour as a personality disorder, then be my guest. But realise that's it's completely pointless and is self servig guesture to maintain the status quo.

No. That is closer to Fascism.

Not all homosexuals have buttsex, although the logic there escapes me completely. I'm pretty sure that if I were gay, I'd still want to fuck. In any case, the ancient greeks didn't believe (overall) that women and men could have equitable relationships of any kind, so women mostly hung out with women and men with men. They wrote a lot more about male-male sex than female-female because it was mostly men doing the writing, and they were extremely self-centered, but apparently there was a lot of female homo sex going on too.

I think they should return the Olympics to its original condition, though permitting females to participate. That would really liven things up...

If at all possible, I would recommend rooting your phone and killing/removing apps. You could also try Cyanogenmod if it is supported on your device... which it likely is.

I can't speak for anyone else, but my fantasy women were all invented by Larry Niven, Robert Heinlein, or Piers Anthony. I'll readily admit that's still quite sophomoric, but at least it's beyond infantile.

I also can't speak for anyone else, but part of the attraction to computing for me was that it is a solitary activity. Not necessarily because I want to be solitary, but because I don't have as many social skills as many other people. My mother was depressive and my father was depressive and absentee, so they had nothing valuable or positive to teach me. I was moved away from my peer group right at the end of elementary school and never recovered socially. So that supports your theory, if not your vitriol.

Intent is always relevant.

Yeah, and those people were the tools, since today supercomputers are built out of PCs — but even then it was a true computing revolution, and PCs were used to solve serious problems. I always think about Autocad when this comes up. That kind of software used to have to run on a workstation.

Also Weird Science, and Wargames. But it's a short list.

Minecraft has more female players than many games, but it still has vastly more male players than female. As for the Java side, or either side for that matter, have you seen the way Minecraft players behave? Playing on public servers is often nauseating. Kids are naming their sword stuff like "FUCK HER RIGHT IN THE PUSSY" and then definitely primarily targeting females when they PvP, or naming sticks "dildo", throwing them at girls, and telling them they're ugly. And these are just children. Imagine what the weed-dicks responsible for the death threats around gamergate are like to women. It would be surprising if the ratio of female programmers involved with modding minecraft weren't lower than the average ratio of females involved in programming.

Sorry, here comes some more. I think more women are interested in parenting than men. One of my favorite examples is a picture someone posted to the internets of how their daughter handled her toy cars. She drove them around "like a boy would", with screeching tires and so on. Then when she was done she put them to bed in a crib, lying on their backs, and covered them with a blanket. And today, the teacher has to spend more time parenting, because less is going on at home.

Interestingly, we all descend from just one woman, but not from just one man.