> That day in the Family Restroom I threw a fit. Hurled my water bottle at the wall and screamed, "This is not OK!"
What? I can understand being frustrated but that reaction doesn't seem constructive at all.
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#22It's not ok that only 3% of people present liked peanut butter! I'm going to make it my mission to get more people that like peanut butter into conferences.
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#23It is actually pretty interesting that so many commenters here short circuited into thinking she was complaining about the bathroom situation.
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#24"That day in the Family Restroom I threw a fit. Hurled my water bottle at the wall and screamed, "This is not OK!""
How exactly after this do you expect anyone to take you seriously?
Gender equality isn't about having just as many women programmers, and it certainly isn't well servered by having tantrums over the bathroom arrangements.
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#25I think she forgot Ada Byron when she said there were no important women in computers this millenium. EDIT: No "keynoters, the language designers, the authors of seminal texts" in this millenium. And there was Grace Hopper too. Double edit: Admittedly, anything in 1xxx is technically the "last millenium". My mistake.
Byron and Hopper lived in the previous millenium...
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#26>That day in the Family Restroom I threw a fit. Hurled my water bottle at the wall and screamed, "This is not OK!" Oh please, calm down. Closed the tab.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/27/cameron-...
Women (and other humans) are allowed to be angry about both perceived and actual injustice. TFA isn't even an actual emotional outburst. It's a reasoned account of something happened to the author.
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#27I think she forgot Ada Byron when she said there were no important women in computers this millenium. EDIT: No "keynoters, the language designers, the authors of seminal texts" in this millenium. And there was Grace Hopper too. Double edit: Admittedly, anything in 1xxx is technically the "last millenium". My mistake.
Err. Both of them lived and died in the last millennium.
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#28"That day in the Family Restroom I threw a fit. Hurled my water bottle at the wall and screamed, "This is not OK!"" How exactly after this do you expect anyone to take you seriously? Gender equality isn't about having just as many women programmers, and it certainly isn't well servered by having tantrums over the bathroom arrangements.
She had a tantrum in private, which is the correct place to throw a fit. After you've calmed down, then you can do something about the problem, which she's doing.
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#29This doesn't really make sense. She's complaining that at an event with 97% of attendance by men (by her own statement), they got, say, 92% of the bathroom facilities, and then throws a fit. Not buying it. If this is the biggest outrage in your life you should consider yourself fortunate.
When you realised that "this doesn't make sense", that was the time you should have asked "or is it me..." As for women in IT, I can see why IT would want women, but I can't see why women would want IT.
You can't see why a woman would want to be paid quite handsomely to do work that is mentally challenging, not physically arduous, and -- in many cases -- can have a positive societal effect?
So... why do -you- want to work in IT?
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#30It is the weekly females in tech industry time again? At the risk of derailing the thread, why do so many people want to get more women into programming? Isn't that just as misguided as trying to get more men into nursing? Just because we strive for gender equality doesn't mean every job has to have exactly the same gender ratios.
Upvoted.
It's worse than just females in tech, it's OMG men and women are different! Eeek!
I kinda like the difference myself. Not because I don't want women in tech, but because women should be able to pursue whatever they want that makes sense when you consider their differences from men.
I assume this makes me a bad person.