Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

[Marc Lanctot]

On 25/03/09 09:34 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> The CS people mainly have to deal with other CS people and hence might
> get away with bad social skills.  This really offends most women, so
> they go do something else.

Has it occurred to you that maybe [most] women just aren't as interested 
in the subject matter as men? Sure, it's intimidating that CS is fully 
of geeky men (even for some men!).. do you really think you can make the 
generalization that women avoid it because of people within are socially 
inept?

I've been through CS and had female friends that have been through it as 
well as some through engineering. What I can say is sometimes it was 
pretty awkward for them, yes.. and I wouldn't have wanted to be in their 
position at times. But please don't imply that this environment would 
stop them from following their career.

I'm with Dave and Peter on this one; even after their requests to end 
this nonsense people are still following up the thread with juvenile 
follow-up jokes. There was a lot of this at the last meeting.. so much 
that it took Colin about two times what it would normally take anybody 
to give that talk. I was quite amazed.

I'm not without a sense of humor either; I appreciate and contribute my 
fair share of geek humor when it's appropriate .. but there are 600 or 
so people on this list, most of whom I'm sure would rather talk about 
Linux-related subjects than exchange geeky jokes.

So can we please bury this?

Marc

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