Yes, and everyone walks around with some kind of writing tool on them and thinks they're an author too. The unreadable dreck that has turned the self-pub market into a steaming shit-pile makes it very clear that people like you are the ones doing it. Photography is art. Just because you have a tool that is capable of creating art, doesn't mean the person wielding it is, anymore than the billions of people with computers that can run a compiler are capable of writing a useful application.

My experience has been that women in technology who say they "experience hostility, sexism, and nastiness" are experiencing the exact same environment that the men they work with experience. Men who work in the primarily female field of nursing experience cattiness, back-stabbing, and undermining cliquishness. Are women in nursing inherently sexist? No, of course not. Men are just not used to the dynamic of a primarily female workplace, and the same holds true for women.

So, the woman who finds a male nursing co-worker attractive is the problem with the under-representation of men in the nursing field? Men interact with men differently than they interact with women. Women interact with women differently than with men. "Professionalism" that attempts to pretend that's not true is doomed to failure. There are plenty of fields that are balanced in gender representation. There is absolutely nothing inherent in IT professionals that they create a more "sexist" environment than there is in nursing or teaching professionals. Attempting to blame the behavior of those already in the field is disingenuous, uninformed, and insulting.

That is some world-class hipsterism, right there. I tip my hat to you.

In this scenario of yours, which one of you is eating grits?

You're clearly not a farmer. And asking "where will you go when they all do the same thing" is just baseless fear-mongering. My local Wendy's closed and now it's a McDonalds. "Oh noes! Where will I go when they all do the same thing! Gah! It's the end of Wendy's!"

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In what universe has Monsanto ever sued a farmer for cross-contamination that wasn't intentional fraud on the part of the farmer? If you can come up with a single example, the lawyers at the OSGATA would like to have a word with you, because they sure as hell couldn't find any.

http://www.osgata.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/OSGATA-v-Monsanto-MTD-Decision.pdf

You do realize that ALL Federal employees have access to benefits that are not available to the general public, right? Kinda like I don't have access to your company's pension or 401(k) plans.

On Jezebel, the answer is "both".

Where do you work? I've been in technology for 20 years and programming and tech jobs have about as much prestige as a plumber or mechanic. I actually think that's one of the main reasons women DON'T pursue tech jobs in favor of doctoring and lawyering.

No it's not. It's extremely hard for an employer to HIRE a woman in this field. There aren't any. I've hired for hundreds of technology positions from data center operations to development, and I've seen thousands of resumes. The women stick out mostly on account of their novelty. I have always hired on merit, but unless a woman was obviously unfit for the position (e.g., experience in a completely unrelated field or no experience at all) we always brought her in because it was such a refreshing change. This is not an advantage any man was ever given. And like the AC above, their skills fell pretty much along the same bell-curve as men: a few absolutely worthless ones, most of them about average, and a few standouts.

I'm honestly curious here. Advertising isn't going away. It's what keeps the Internet "free". So you're saying you'd rather have completely irrelevant advertising than stuff you may actually be interested in? When I'm in the market for any kind of product, I actively seek out sources of advertising to survey what's available. Being flooded with irrelevant information and advertisements (like happens on the radio and television) is personally unnecessary but financially necessary noise to provide the content I want. I'll take trackers any day over having to pay for every single site I visit.

Long enough that we figured out you don't end a sentence with an unnecessary preposition. Talk about embarrassing mediocrity. You can't even muster a proper sentence with which to condemn your betters.

If she's the only "human representative" in the organization, who is "we"? When working with my toaster, I don't generally use the pronoun "we".

This, this, and exactly this. Mod anony-man up. What an incredibly negative and unrealistic view your friends and family have of human nature. People will pay for something they enjoy because they want you to keep making it. If your 'source of income' is so tenuous that it can be undermined by some kid setting up a torrent, then your audience wouldn't buy it in the first place because they don't care enough to keep you going. Yes, there will always be a selfish percentage who will do nothing but take. Before the Internet we called them shoplifters. But most people are better than that. If you do something that makes them feel, they will want to help you continue doing it.

In the days when an artist could die in poverty, most people didn't have money to pay them, and the means to reach those that could were nearly non-existent. People have disposable income now and have had for quite some time. An artist that dies in poverty today means there was no market for what he was creating, or he or she wasn't clever enough to discover them.

Yeah, you're right about that. That was probably about the dumbest thing anyone has ever said in the history of words. Evidently writing isn't art. Music, movies, photography, or design aren't worthwhile art forms either. Reproducibility is a factor of technology, not the value of the object being reproduced. I'm pretty sure that given time, indistinguishable reproductions of the greatest artworks ever created will be available via 3D printers in the poster's mom's basement. I'm seriously having a hard time trying to figure out what the hell he thinks he was talking about.