That's like saying you should walk around with a Faraday Cage just in case you get hit by lightning.

I'm sure you don't mean to, but you sound like an absolute dickhead when you use that word.

This is utter garbage. It's hate speech, not criticism of Muslims or Islam in particular that's being discussed. Fucking cretin.

***whooosh****

Not really. I'll rephrase so you can better understand it: as an online discussion about sexism continues, the probability of a woman who speaks out being called a feminazi approaches 1.

The Slashdot comments on any story related to women in gaming, or women in tech more generally, always bring Lewis' Law to mind.

Greenpeace feminists conspire with HB1 Visa holders to take guns away from experienced middle aged coders!

Show me these "independant studies" or GTFO.

What do we want!
Evidence-based policy making!
When do we want it!
After a thorough examination of all the available data!

This is what Veganism is? Really? So the millions of people who've led vegan lives in, say, India, over the millennia, are victims of some multi-billion dollar corporate scam? Wow! Thanks for letting me know!

Oh fuck you and your pitchfork-wielding certainty of moral righteousness. You have no idea what the motives of the users actually are - what if it's a working girl? What if it's a gay person from a country where that's not legal? What if it's someone who has an arrangement with their spouse where this is ok, but wants the other party to have some skin in the game? And even if these users have the motivation you seem to think, it's really none of your business - stay the fuck out of it.

No it doesn't. It just needs to meet a need. Pretty much any luxury good defies this description.

I wholeheartedly agree with you.

Always really interesting to see these two topics come up on Slashdot. Ageism apparently exists, sexism doesn't.

What's this got to do with women's interest in STEM?

Straw man. I have no problem with generalisations. I have a problem with unsubstantiated generalisations that are used to justify things unjustifiably. In this case, women are helpers by nature and don't like machines (sic) therefore this is why they're under-represented in STEM. It's just a crock from start to finish.