Programmers and Painted Nails
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Programmers and Painted Nails
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#2As a straight male who paints his nails, I find people getting upset over this issue (and the more general issue of gender stereotypes in tech at all) ridiculous, both people who assume negatively and positively.
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#3Some people just seem to want to take offense where none is intended.
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#4I understand why people where offended it was a gift at a tech conference. Its not that it matters if you paint your nails or not (man or women) but there is usually a lot of inappriopiate to venue advertising to women (think pink biros, and pink science stuff) and I understand the feeling to nip that in the bud. Btw to all the straight males report they paint their nails, anyone use nail art blogs? I've hear of someone thinking about a program for designing nail art. It seems a technically interesting problemset. Scan nail size by finger, or input it. I've not read of any studies on how much variance is there on fingernail size. (though im sure someone has). Then consider what is the smallest paintable size for the users "brush".
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#5I understand why people where offended it was a gift at a tech conference. Its not that it matters if you paint your nails or not (man or women) but there is usually a lot of inappriopiate to venue advertising to women (think pink biros, and pink science stuff) and I understand the feeling to nip that in the bud. Btw to all the straight males report they paint their nails, anyone use nail art blogs? I've hear of some…
Reddit has some relevant subs.
http://www.reddit.com/r/RedditLaqueristas/
Amoung others.
Re: Programmers and Painted Nails
#6I understand why people where offended it was a gift at a tech conference. Its not that it matters if you paint your nails or not (man or women) but there is usually a lot of inappriopiate to venue advertising to women (think pink biros, and pink science stuff) and I understand the feeling to nip that in the bud. Btw to all the straight males report they paint their nails, anyone use nail art blogs? I've hear of some…
I read a few blogs as well as subreddits, but at least for now, lack the skill to do real 'art' myself.
A program would be an interesting exercise, I guess.
As for 'inappropriate' advertising to women, I'd say that stuff shouldn't /not/exist any more than ones pitched towards any other specific group too, but the neutral products should be done in a way not to exclude anyone, with the expectation that people will eventually gravitate towards them as they serve different functions - for people already engaged vs getting that initial engagement.
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#7> I mean that if a woman walks into a Google mixer with long pretty hair and a skirt, people assume she works in sales. If she walks in with a ponytail and a t-shirt and jeans, people are much more likely to believe she’s a programmer.
I am yet to meet a programmer that voluntarily wears a suit. So unless it's a wedding, funeral or HR hoop jumping, when I see a men in a suit I assume he is rather some kind of a salesperson not a programmer. That heuristic served me well in bizarre world of social interactions this far.
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#8> I mean that if a woman walks into a Google mixer with long pretty hair and a skirt, people assume she works in sales. If she walks in with a ponytail and a t-shirt and jeans, people are much more likely to believe she’s a programmer. I am yet to meet a programmer that voluntarily wears a suit. So unless it's a wedding, funeral or HR hoop jumping, when I see a men in a suit I assume he is rather some kind of a sales…
Yeah, but you won't always be right - do you like being wrong some of the time because you jump to conclusions?
How about deferring judgement until you interact verbally with the person?
How about not using superficial visual cues to infer social and labor roles/identities?
I am a straight(ish, ahem) guy who from time to time paints his nails. Q: What would you infer from that? A: Don't bother, cuz I don't fit into your boxes, and guess what, no one else does (including you).
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#9Some people just seem to want to take offense where none is intended.
Don't know why you're being downvoted, this type of person definitely exists.
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#10i think it's cute when men paint their nails.