Comment Re:Arrogant BS (Score 1) 106
Yes, men and women are physically different. Yes, it is pointless expecting us to be the same and attacking anyone who dares to suggest that we might not be. But. Regardless of how much truth there is in it, using purely scientific explanations (ie without the sociological, nurture aspect) is reductionist. Besides, a lot of behavioural difference is less sex than gender (i.e. masculine rather than male biased)...
Sadly, you're probably right on the 10% issue. For whatever reason, as you say. I spent last week as the only female (and the youngest student) on the Red Hat Certified Engineer course - in a class of 10-12ish - and when I skipped lunch to play with the kernel configuration, comments along the lines of "oh, not eating, it's a girlie thing" were apparently made by the assembled company of male unix admins... Enlightened, aren't we? I spent the whole week feeling twice as stressed as I should have done because I felt that I had something to prove. You can't say that's biological.
hacking is some sort of disorder [etc]
What, so now you're comparing hacking to sexual deviancy? Either that or you're just pointing out that both are practised by men, which isn't making any sort of point that I can see. An intense interest in computing is comparable to an intense interest in something else - line dancing, jazz trombone, whatever. Every obsession has a typical lifestyle that goes with it... maybe there is a particular personality or background type that gravitates towards hacking, but to say it's a (mental? behavioural?) disorder just seems unnecessarily self-castigating...
You may think I'm talking bullshit as well, of course. :)
Sadly, you're probably right on the 10% issue. For whatever reason, as you say. I spent last week as the only female (and the youngest student) on the Red Hat Certified Engineer course - in a class of 10-12ish - and when I skipped lunch to play with the kernel configuration, comments along the lines of "oh, not eating, it's a girlie thing" were apparently made by the assembled company of male unix admins... Enlightened, aren't we? I spent the whole week feeling twice as stressed as I should have done because I felt that I had something to prove. You can't say that's biological.
hacking is some sort of disorder [etc]
What, so now you're comparing hacking to sexual deviancy? Either that or you're just pointing out that both are practised by men, which isn't making any sort of point that I can see. An intense interest in computing is comparable to an intense interest in something else - line dancing, jazz trombone, whatever. Every obsession has a typical lifestyle that goes with it... maybe there is a particular personality or background type that gravitates towards hacking, but to say it's a (mental? behavioural?) disorder just seems unnecessarily self-castigating...
You may think I'm talking bullshit as well, of course.
