Binary thinking is rediculous! (Score 1)

Hear hear! I completely agree! Binary gender approach is silly and narrow minded. Look around, people are portraying behavioural traits that belong to the "opposite" gender which is generally accepted. I am guessing (since I'm not living in the US) that the acceptance of women in technical jobs is still a problem for the older generation(s). From what I see happening around me is that the younger generation is more accepting. OT: The title is just another cheep marketing stunt, since it's basically a "Computer Technology for Female Dummies". As many others already mentioned, a geek is indeed someone who happens to be submerged in his/her field of choice and seems to attempt to learn or know everything about it. Often the "escape" into social 'isolation' for the geek types, isn't necessarily due to the geekness. IMHO when someone is smarter than the rest of the class in primary school and they happen not to be extrovert, they have a big change of withdrawing themselves. When they discover their strength in IT for example, chances are they will attempt to be excellent at it. At the cost of "creeping" out his/her peers. When I was finishing primary school (1977) I was very interested in computers, while my peers didn't have a clue what they actually were. It didn't take me long to learn BASIC by myself (books were not available in my language yet and I didn't speak a word of English). I think I did miss a lot, spending more and more time with computers rather than with my friends, because it was becoming more and more interesting. (Perhaps that explains the little dominant streak in me, discovering how to "command" a computer and have it do what I want.) Needless to say, my interests were not the shoot-them-ups, or platform games, no I loved to write classic style adventures, focussed on romance, non-combat roleplay and eventually attempting to find a way of making AI have emotions. My friends didn't understand me, nor did my male friends. (Again this is the very early era of (home) computing I'm talking about.) Why I ended up in computing? I have to "thank" my parents for that. They sort of ignored my existence, didn't know how to deal with a child that always wants to know more, even beyond their grasp of understanding. It's not easy growing up like that, I can relate to many of these geek/nerd stories. I was the weird girl with the glasses, always having her nose stuck in books (before finding out about computers). Now it's my children's turn. The oldest (10) is scared of technology, but an artist ahead of his age, the youngest (3) has the same interest as me, she already wants to play with technological toys and computers. She doesn't like the V-Tech crap, she wants (and now has) her own laptop. She can't read, but the icons are enough for her to understand what to do... I didn't push her, she is just choosing to use the pc. (By the way, she loves Edubuntu). She too will be a true Geek Goddess if she continues like that.