Re: [LAU] [Fwd: Re: Fuck your sexism]

Sorry, you're wrong. How did I get into tech? Let me tell you. I picked up programming as a kid, and I got really into it when I was getting my ass kicked at school twice a week. Music and computers kept my sanity. It's something I continue to play hard at, doing DSP and 6502 assembly and gigging in my spare time. So, no, not random at all. My skill at music and code correlates perfectly with the crap I put up with in my youth.

Why isn't it 50% of the population? Who knows. Why do I go to gatherings where everyone is hacking on games-- music, art, sound, code-- and there are no women? You answer me that, since you seem to be infinitely wise.

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On Feb 10, 2013, at 12:14 PM, SxDx <sed@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Whatever I write would not be convincing. I am an asshole.
> I accept that.
>
> But! maybe the following argument would at
> least open up your mind on sexism.
>
> How did you come to linux? or hacking? or computer science?
> How does one human being come to that? Is there a special
> pattern?
>
> My bet is: no. It's pure random. At point t in time you
> don't care, at point t+dt you care and roll on.
>
> If this is right, why don't we find 50% of female humans,
> as in the general population?
>
> So there is a problem. You don't see it because you are
> males. All of you. No female friend to talk to you about
> what she lives. Dig a bit on the web. Recently several
> women in tech went public on how they are treated by
> you, males.
>
> That said, I already made my point, I won't pollute that
> list further. I'll stick to technical stuff. There is no
> point to fight with people who don't accept there is a problem.
>
> Thanks to Bill Gribble for finding better words I'll ever can.
> I doubt it will be useful though, but that's how desperate I am
> when there are other human beings involved.
>
> Happy music, happy hacking. And to hell with sexism.
>
> And Hermann, don't take it personally. I used guitarix for
> the guitar part.
> Well, nobody take that personally. It's more a "group behavior"
> that I see and you don't see because you're in it.
> Okay, enough noise.
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