Comment Re:Not for me (Score 0) 607
Thank you to KeizerHein for the helpful (if a bit preachy) and VERY TRUE response.
I once was told, on an IRC channel no less, that I couldn't possibly be female-- since I liked OLD DOS GAMES (Shock! Horror!) So I said, "Uhh, my driver's license is on the Net. (With the important parts blocked out, of course) And showed it to them. They said "Oh, you could fake that."
I asked them why in HELL would any male fake a female ID to masquerade as a woman who likes old DOS games? (In retrospect, I should have dragged out Occam's Razor...)
Anyhow. And once, I was in a computer store with a (male) friend of mine-- a non-geek (yes, I have a few non-geek friends, believe it or not). I was talking to the clerk about what I was looking for, and my friend piped up to say "Hey, can I carry that box for you?" ("You" here meaning "me"). I thanked him and said yes.
Then, to my shock and dismay, the sales clerk took that opportunity to start discussing the techie items I was looking for with my friend!
After around 500 milliseconds of pondering my response, I butted in. "Excuse me," I said, "I'M the techie here. NOT him."
It took a lot of chutzpah and probably left him saying to himself, "Stupid bitch thinks she knows computers..." or some similarly sexist remark-- but what else was there to do? Let him talk to my friend (who is a great guy but a total computer illiterate Windoze-type) just because he's male??
I once was told, on an IRC channel no less, that I couldn't possibly be female-- since I liked OLD DOS GAMES (Shock! Horror!) So I said, "Uhh, my driver's license is on the Net. (With the important parts blocked out, of course) And showed it to them. They said "Oh, you could fake that."
I asked them why in HELL would any male fake a female ID to masquerade as a woman who likes old DOS games? (In retrospect, I should have dragged out Occam's Razor...)
Anyhow. And once, I was in a computer store with a (male) friend of mine-- a non-geek (yes, I have a few non-geek friends, believe it or not). I was talking to the clerk about what I was looking for, and my friend piped up to say "Hey, can I carry that box for you?" ("You" here meaning "me"). I thanked him and said yes.
Then, to my shock and dismay, the sales clerk took that opportunity to start discussing the techie items I was looking for with my friend!
After around 500 milliseconds of pondering my response, I butted in. "Excuse me," I said, "I'M the techie here. NOT him."
It took a lot of chutzpah and probably left him saying to himself, "Stupid bitch thinks she knows computers..." or some similarly sexist remark-- but what else was there to do? Let him talk to my friend (who is a great guy but a total computer illiterate Windoze-type) just because he's male??
