why can't i just be a geek like the rest of you? (Score 1)

Isn't that what this whole equality thing is all about? I'm not a chickclicker or a geekgrrl or any other sexist moniker you wish to apply to me. I am a geek who happens to be a woman. My browsing habits probably don't differ that much from yours. I buy hardware, not lipstick. I read Slashdot and Ars Technica, not any of those frilly "women's" pages. Yet, somehow, I must be different, right? I have to deal with my relatives asking me if a network administrator is a type of secretary when I tell them what I do. I have to listen as vendors and support personnel assume I don't know what I'm talking about because my voice has a higher pitch than theirs. Now I have to put up with this crap in my own "community" as well? Why is it such a novelty that I might actually know what I am doing? Did you really think that it takes a penis to run a computer? Come on, now, guys... you know better than that.