Hanging With Hackers: Inside Germany's Great 'Geek' Convention
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Re: Hanging With Hackers: Inside Germany's Great 'Geek' Convention
#2From the original article "Der Hacker mit dem Comic-Mann-Aussehen redet sich in Rage..."
A little irrelevant to this post, but one thing I find very interesting is this: Generally gender imbalance in CS is explained as due to an environment that is hostile to women (even a Start Trek poster in the classroom). In writing, the pronoun "she" is usually used in examples, to avoid "sexist language"
Yet, the fact that "Hacker" has a masculine article doesn't bother the German female hackers. Articles for foreign adopted words are generally determined phonetically, AFAIK, but still. Do we refer to female hackers as "die Hackerin" :-) What is the article in other languages, French, Italian, etc (I would be very surprised if any had a feminine article)?
Re: Hanging With Hackers: Inside Germany's Great 'Geek' Convention
#3If you can, read the original article (in German): http://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/besuch-beim-chaos-communi...
Re: Hanging With Hackers: Inside Germany's Great 'Geek' Convention
#4From the original article "Der Hacker mit dem Comic-Mann-Aussehen redet sich in Rage..." A little irrelevant to this post, but one thing I find very interesting is this: Generally gender imbalance in CS is explained as due to an environment that is hostile to women (even a Start Trek poster in the classroom). In writing, the pronoun "she" is usually used in examples, to avoid "sexist language" Yet, the fact that "Hac…
>Yet, the fact that "Hacker" has a masculine article doesn't bother the
>German female hackers.
Why would that bother them, if they have their own term ("die Hackerin")?
Re: Hanging With Hackers: Inside Germany's Great 'Geek' Convention
#5From the original article "Der Hacker mit dem Comic-Mann-Aussehen redet sich in Rage..." A little irrelevant to this post, but one thing I find very interesting is this: Generally gender imbalance in CS is explained as due to an environment that is hostile to women (even a Start Trek poster in the classroom). In writing, the pronoun "she" is usually used in examples, to avoid "sexist language" Yet, the fact that "Hac…
Perhaps "die Häckse": https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/wiki/Haeckse
Re: Hanging With Hackers: Inside Germany's Great 'Geek' Convention
#6From the original article "Der Hacker mit dem Comic-Mann-Aussehen redet sich in Rage..." A little irrelevant to this post, but one thing I find very interesting is this: Generally gender imbalance in CS is explained as due to an environment that is hostile to women (even a Start Trek poster in the classroom). In writing, the pronoun "she" is usually used in examples, to avoid "sexist language" Yet, the fact that "Hac…
You can use both articles in Greek.
Re: Hanging With Hackers: Inside Germany's Great 'Geek' Convention
#7From the original article "Der Hacker mit dem Comic-Mann-Aussehen redet sich in Rage..." A little irrelevant to this post, but one thing I find very interesting is this: Generally gender imbalance in CS is explained as due to an environment that is hostile to women (even a Start Trek poster in the classroom). In writing, the pronoun "she" is usually used in examples, to avoid "sexist language" Yet, the fact that "Hac…
Perhaps "die Häckse": https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/wiki/Haeckse
wie Hexe! love it.