Seeing as though I got here out of sheer frustration, I'll be happy to reconsider my biases if I ever meet a womyn-born-womyn who is interested in computers beyond bashing me over the head with Ada Lovelace, blaming me for the actions of other people, and in general not being a complete and utter sexist. ... 1) I would be happy to meet you and disabuse you of the notion that all "naturally born females" hate trans folk, are only into computers to beat you over the head with our superiority, or are sexist. 2). Who the flip is Ada Lovelace, and why should I care? :) 3). You are not responsible for the actions of others, only in your reactions to others. 4). May I suggest you take a deep breath, count to ten, and step away from the keyboard for a bit before returning to the conversation. I enjoy reading your insight but you are obviously getting all worked up about past slights and that unfortunately colors your perceptions negatively... Which makes it harder to accept your arguments.

I can tell you that there *is* a negative bias instilled very young among girls, that we are "naturally" bad at science and math (which is false) and shouldn't strive in those fields. Only the dedicated persevere. Woman like Hopper had a headwind of bias to contend with, and only the truly confident person (male or female) survives such constant buffeting to progress in their chosen field. The only way the numbers will change is if girls get a confidence boost and the inspiration to learn tech during their formative years in school. Period. I had my father; most tech girls I know came from supportive tech-savvy households. The "girls are bad at math" and "girls don't have the patience required to learn (tech)" are ideas I had to deal with in public school, invariably by old white males. Now, if the trolling sexism and man-ifest destiny crap can be done with, please? There really are women listening to all this, even if there aren't a lot of us. :)