Women Still Suck At Computers
Women are leaving the profession of computing in record numbers. A recent study shows the percentage of women in engineering is down from 38% to 28% since 1985. I guess that’s why we call them “engineers” and not “politicians”. With no women around, they actually get things done.
Women suck at computers because they can’t evolve with technology and they don’t know a USB port from a hole in the ground, which they also don’t know from their ass.
I was just riding the elevator up to my flat with an elderly woman. I’m a gentleman so I held the door open for her despite the reeking aroma of rancid butterscotch and prunes. She reeked of it, not me. I always smell like a man: a hint of cedar, a dash of class, and a double douse of sexy, sweaty money. That’s class you can choke on.
The moment the old woman got in, her hand jabbed the “Close Doors” button like it was my wallet and she was about 50 years younger and about seven-cups sizes more statutory.
“Gross,� I thought.
Then she held onto the “Close Doors� button until long after the elevator started moving.
“Interesting choice,â€? I thought. “Everyone knows that button doesn’t fucking work.â€?
Women are the amoebas of technological sophistication. They can’t and will never evolve for shit.
Men, on the other hand, are constantly changing. We adapt to new things and also reproduce asexually with computers. I guess that makes us like amoebas of technology as well, but in a different way.
My point is, women keep on hammering the space bar when the Caps Lock key is what they’re looking for. They hit the “Log onto Myspace and Send Slutty Messages to My Ex-Boyfriendsâ€? button when what they should have done was taken two Advils and gone the fuck to bed. In twenty years, women will be looking for a place to plug their computer into the wall when plugs don’t even exist anymore.
Amoebas won’t have evolved in that time either.
I guess we’ll be using some kind of eco-fuel at that point instead of wall plugs. Like you’ll pour brandy into your computer.
Jesus, that is the manliest computer I have ever heard of. I just invented it here. I call it the Dick Masterson Masterbox.
I asked the woman on the elevator if she was getting off on the 3rd floor or in 1935. I don’t think she understood what I was talking about. Menopause will do that.
Related Articles:
Pages: [6] 5 4 3 2 1 » Show All
I love the site Dick, and I can’t believe that I’m supporting the old woman, but apparently holding down the close door button on an elevator means it won’t stop for others. Still, she was probably just dumb, and she shouldn’t have reeked so bad.
Bah, engineers are fucking useless either way.
I will refrain from telling you what your house would look like without engineers. Just saying.
Wasn’t taking a crack at you,harry.Just enquired if you were objecting what I said.I did NOT mean to offend/insult you in any way.I just misunderstood your opinion,I guess
Raj: Only objection you’ll hear from me ever is if violence towards females is entioned. Like I said, you’re entitled to your opinion, even if I disagree with it, here’s not the place for men to fall out. Especially as they’re words on a screen. My opinions will vary from a lot of men that come here, I don’t see myself as a chauvenist, some women will. But if they track back and check my posts, they’ll allways see that my language reflects theirs. I treat men and women the same in real life. I’m cordial unless I’m shown I don’t need to be. Works for me but I don’t live on the rougher/tougher streets of the USA.
I know this is a humor site. It’s pretty obvious from the articles. But it seems a lot of men on these forums don’t realize it’s a satire.
I haven’t been bitching. All I’ve done is stated facts. I offered a counterexample to this article to see if I could convince any of the guys on here, the ones who do seem to think women are inferior, that there might possibly be exceptions. Unless this entire thing is an act, and no one really believes half of what they’re saying. But if that were true, why would they be saying it in the first place?
A lot of men on this site either aren’t taking much notice of the articles and have an anti feminism message (me for instance). Others are merely expanding on the articles. Despite your disagreeing with them, so much of the articles are true. Myself, I wish you well in your education and life. I merely hope you and the rest of your gender come back to reality and stop seeing yourselves as something you aren’t.
How seriously do you take the site, then?
I have no problem with suggesting that the average intelligence of females is lower than the average intelligence of males, for example. I only see a problem when people make the blunt assertion without evidence. If you’re against radical feminists (which seem to me women who try to be men, or who think women are superior to men intead of equal), I’d side with you.
I only disagree with your mindset if your claims are groundless, if you have no real reason to believe them.
Men became more and more serious about this and it’s growing in a proportionate way to you whimmin talking shit, and having no clue, what to say or do instead.
The articles for me are something to laugh at. Especially as I see the truth in some of them. My personal views on feminists and females that benefit from the privelege feminism has won them, through decades of social nagging are based on my observations. I’m 46, used to think feminism had a place in society. My opinions have changed, seeing what it means in day to day life for men. I also see what I think is worrying and can clearly be seen as social manipulation of men. Just watch the media with an open mind. You’ll see it too. Even adverts have become sexist towards men. Something that would have had feminists pissing their knickers with fury in the 70’s had it been towards females.
alyssa: My age means I have been alive long enough to SEE male thinking and attitude towards females change. Chauvenism did exist in most males, it no longer does. What I’ll ask you, do you and your gender want men to return to those ways because women have become too greedy and over confident in their own opinions of themselves? One thing you must remember, we did change, we have allowed you to think of yourselves as equal (though equality is merely philosophical) and can just as easily take it back. Take a small bit of advice from an old(ish) man. Don’t let your greed come back and bite you in the arse.
I do notice that it’s socially acceptable for women to put down men but not vice versa. It’s sort of like how black people might put down white people and not be criticized for it as much as if it were the other way around. It seems to be that way when one group was oppressed in the past.
I’m against sexism towards men and towards women, meaning that if someone makes a sexist remark, putting down either gender, I automatically dislike the comment and usually form a low opinion of the commenter. This is only because I’ve never seen a reason for their claim other than that they seem to have fun putting down the opposite gender, and want what they say to be true, without really thinking about the truth or caring about it.
It seems a lot of women have become arrogant about their equality, and seem to too quickly go from labeling themselves as being equal to men, to being superior to them. I’m not one of those women.
Even though some women have become a bit arrogant, preventing them by taking away their label as equal to men isn’t near worth disallowing every woman from at least trying to pursue education, jobs which would otherwise likely be available only to men, etc. Even if the average woman were a complete idiot, equal oportunities would be needed so that the ones that aren’t idiots have the oportunity to meet their potentials.
Alyssa,I still don’t think its registering in your c.p.u.I think you need to get out more,and look at all the never ending trash around you which are feminists.Accept that you can’t deal with the fact men are superior to women.
It was never men who “put down” women,rather the overpopulated repulsive feminists trying to bring down men and men’s rights.
I speak here because it lacks constraints from either gender. I agree with your point about PC now being used as a tool to manipulate, (your first paragraph)
The lack of constraints gives us the ability to verbally at least slap back. Trust me on this, men have had enough of this shit. I’m glad you dislike sexism from either gender and I try not to display any except pointing out the obvious, which in my opinion isn’t sexist racist etc. It’s merely fact. I have never nor will ever say women shouldn’t be educated or have the right to jobs IF they’ve actually earned them. Legislation forcing employers to employ isn’t earning those positions. Simple and indisputable fact. alyssa, seriously I wish you well, especially if you are a high achiever. You will have actually earned your position (hopefully). Did you ever concider the legislation that forces employment actually takes away from that accomplishment?
”Did you ever concider the legislation that forces employment actually takes away from that accomplishment?”
Example: You get a good job. Another woman gets one alongside you but she didn’t get it because she was the best candidate. You now have to work harder. Your position has less value because it’s now measured by her standard.
Wonder why men are pissed?
”I speak here because it lacks constraints from either gender.”
And I have to say. Considering my piss poor education. The adversaries I’ve come across so far have been found wanting. Being polite.
“lacks restraints from either gender”?.Look fella,she was trying to say men put down women in a sexist way and she has a low opinion of them.I just told her she had it upside down and I was honest when I said its the feminists who have the rebelling streak to protest against men for no fault of ours.Just to satisfy their delusional feminist fantasies which are to “bring down men”and pretend females are “oppressed” and have “lack of rights”
raj, you having a pop at me?
�I speak here because it lacks constraints from either gender.�
This I said because it means I can speak freely without the site editing what I say. What you might have read into it is your doing. Speaking as someone that did move a few weights when I was younger. And someone that ‘tried’ life a little. Don’t get ‘angry’ at the drop of a hat.
raj: your opinions are your own. I’ll never speak out against a man here unless it’s against violence.
raj: I just scrolled back. The comment you’ve mentioned was directed at alyssa.
Harry – overall, the insight you obviously have about things and express through your comments exposes an “education” you’ve gained that is valuable regardless of its formality.
More to my point – the (general) difference between men and whimmin regarding conflict, is that while men may have misunderstandings, we usually settle them quickly (even if occassionally, violently); while whimmin will go on-and-on with their silly behaviors…grudges…and henceforth probably never be at peace with the “opposing” party again.
Thankfully, you and Raj7 are MEN. So while not (quite…ha!) perfect, we are…
BetterThanWhimmin
Benign: Ye mate, I refer to my formal education. The school of life has it’s advantages too and the right kind of TV a little reading helps too. My reply to alyssa was written at similar times to raj’s and fell just after his. I’m guessig that’s where the misunderstanding came from. Her names mentioned in the comment, though not at the top like I do usually. I won’t fall out with anyone for words on a screen bud. He’s a young fella, testosterone on overdrive, I expect some of the expected, eventually (if he stays long enough) he’ll come to realise this. Good to see you have a bit of diplomat in you too.
benignbullet
where do you get your information from? in my experience it’s the men who don’t know their arse from their dicks and panic like pussies when anything goes wrong. i’ve been the one that calmed everyone down, cleaning up their messes and then, after being put down by the arseholes for not reading their minds even more than I already had, still had to deal with my own shit.
i’ve found that women are bitchy in a pulse like fashion (hot and cold), but can be friends like that forever.
men however, will have wars about things that they claim happened thousands of years ago and are no longer relevant, like israel and the bible. men will cry about how fucking hard it is and how much work it is and how much their finger hurts when they get a paper cut, and at the slightest offense, will come to blows, especially if they are drunk.
men are wimps. they are weak.
well, at least from my experience. but unlike some of the commenters on this site i’m willing to acknowledge that the universe is bigger than my experience so maybe that’s not always true.
perhaps you lot should do the same.
I found this an interesting string of comments and would just like to say that I thought your comments, Harry, were well thought, interesting, and had a good perspective without being rude. Thanks for that.
Exactly>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
In YOUR experience.
The PROBLEM with that is that, your anecdote doesn’t equal an average.
In fact, while I don’t see much in the way of definitiveness on the subject, a COMPOSITE of anecdotes and research shows that yes, whimmin are “better” than men at holding a grudge (consistent, though not conclusive evidence).
Generally, because whimmin TEND to be more attuned to others’ feeeeelings, they are ALSO more attuned to their OWN (as such, even little things tend to push whimmin’s buttons more…and they RARELY forget them…or completely let them go>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
could this be just ONE reason whimmin generally prefer to work for MALE bosses?).
“men however, will have wars about things that they claim happened thousands of years ago and are no longer relevant, like israel and the bible. men will cry about how fucking hard it is and how much work it is and how much their finger hurts when they get a paper cut, and at the slightest offense, will come to blows, especially if they are drunk.”
Current conflict, regardless of history, goes well beyond a GRUDGE (it’s about territorial rights, resources…things far more significant to far more people than whimmin’s individual resentments).
Men take WAY more risks than you, in FAR more dangerous jobs; yet you expect an example of a paper cut to fly?
Yes – men will come to blows (but then, on average, let it go SOONER).
Men are also close to 85% of the computer scientists in the United States (in that context, whimmin “suck” at computers…compared to men).
StartingToGetItYet?
I disagree, that a woman’s intelligence is lower than the average intelligence of a man. If women were dumber than men, they would have smaller brains or be closer to the apes. Which suggests women are of other species than men are, and they wouldn’t be able to reproduce, therefore: humans and whatever you think women are supposed to be will die off.
And this is an example of YOUR intelligence? LMAO, good job you have a cunny, you’d be useless otherwise.
Alyssa, stop talking shit.
You want to think its a satire bitch. Thats what you WANT to think. Fuck..your so weak you cant even stand a little woman bashing
Well,katie.Good to see atleast one female who has a sense of humor.Maybe you could convince the dumb feminists to get brain surgery or atleast make them laugh at something else other than ellen degeneres jokes(if that’s even possible).
Hmm… did I leave a “never” out, or do people have the ability to modify posts?
What I’m almost sure I wrote was:
“I see no point in that question. The answer is no, and the question is irrelevant as I’ve never engaged in that particular sexual act.”
Maybe you should engage in sucking our cocks.I know you’re desperate for some.Its so obvious!You just gave us a hint “I have never engaged in that sexual act”.So stop hiding behind that “computer programming” crap baby and lets get it on!
”Hmm… did I leave a “neverâ€? out, or do people have the ability to modify posts?”
Just admit a msitake when you make one alyssa, no need to cover it with paranoia. Combined with an inferiority complex you’re already well on your way to your first appointment with a shrink.
I was wondering whether it was a mistake or someone did somehow modify the post. I thought it was likely the latter because I know mods on other forums have the ability to modify posts and It’s happened to me before. Also because I read over the line a few times before submitting it, and it would be weird that I never noticed I left the word out. I have no problem admitting I might have made a mistake. I just thought given the circumstances it was unlikely.
Take my word for it. Nothing on this site is edited. Sometimes for some reason the occasional comment doesn’t go up. That’s it
I’m going into computer programming, and doing the best in my class. The teacher, who had no idea I was going into programming, suggested that I should seriously think about going into it because I’m really good at it.
I’ve debunked this article by proving that there is at least one exception. The most you can say now is that most women are bad with technology. I have no idea whether that’s true or most women are good with technology, but I think it’s important that you realize that this doesn’t apply to all women, at the least.
yawn………..
Oh, so you say you are the exception, just like every other woman,
ok let’s find out – do you for ex suck cock without expection absolutely nothing at all in exchange for it???
I see no point in that question. The answer is no, and the question is irrelevant as I’ve engaged in that particular sexual act.
No No!
On the contrary!
The question its VERY relevant because you just did an EXCELLENT job of proving you’re a whore…. who – by your own admission – does NOT suck dick unless she gets something ELSE in exchange for it.
Its a GREAT question.
Thanks to Studioline for asking it.
And thank you Alyssa Whore for answering.
Menarebetterthanwomen.
Yes Alyssa, you are a whore, just a whore.
The fact that you try to cover that up with lies and other stuff, makes you look even more pathetic. That’s how it works, hun.
Now, you can go ahead and rant all you want. In reality, you rant because you hate the idea that men know, that you are a whore.
Alyssa can also be “really good” at sucking dicks too.
Why doesn’t she go into that??? It probably pays better.
But just because a woman “can program” still doesn’t negate the fact that men are better than women at everything including programming.
A man can suggest that chick goes into taking her panties off and spread her crack….. but does that mean she should go into it????
Its a MAN’s job to go INTO it.
Its HER job to spread it.
Poor deluded harridan.
So some ‘teacher’ who probably has never worked in any serious capacity within the IT industry, has patted you on the head for being the cleverest half-wit in a class of cretins and this somehow proves that you are good with technology!
Zounds! Unfettered stupidity bound to bottomless ignorance.
Alyssa, when you have held a senior technical position within a respectable company then, and only then, would you have the right to claim technical competence. Until that time I suggest you shut up and piss off! You are neither needed nor wanted on this forum, you have nothing, save silence, worth contributing.
I am more than capable of generating the inane, banal drivel that you women think passes for reasoned comment. For example:
“Im rilly good with like computers n stuff. Haha, I like did stuff adn my teachre was like wtf! u is totly goddess! So u can see women r bettre than men at technology – i going to build my own robert that is 10 times better than any man! u r all gay and hate your mothers and must be abused by your mothers. GET A LIFE BE HORSE PARK FARM SANDWICH MEN!
Perfect! Indistinguishable from any typical female post!
I don’t think the teacher’s claim is definite proof that I’m good with technology, but it’s enough to offer as a counterexample to what this article claims.
True, that it is a beginning programming class and it isn’t saying as much as it would if it were a more advanced one. Today my calculus teacher happened to say something similar to me that my CS teacher did. He suggested I seriously consider going into Mathematics. Believe it or not, I’ve gotten a similar comment from a high school English teacher, and from a college philosophy teacher. The Math teacher has a phD. So does the Philosophy teacher, and so does the CS teacher, for that matter, if you think they lack credentials.
It’s been admitted by someone here that there might be exceptions. So, if there can be exceptions, is it fair to label every woman as lesser at everything before you know her and determine whether or not she’s one of the exceptions? What if there are more exceptions than you think?
alyssa: I’m going to point out the obvious, as with all your ‘intelligence’ you don’t appear to have grasped it. 1: Dicks articles are satire. Funny, as in don’t need to be exact, have logic etc. They just need some truth in them to make them funny. If you weren’t female and had the inferiority complex that comes with your gender, you’d be able to laugh at yourself. 2: Teachers praise to encourage. This doesn’t take from what you may or may not have achieved but it is their job to encourage.
Exactly. I’m a woman and I enjoy this site because its such good humor. I don’t know what these women are getting all pissy about. It just proves the people theyr disagreeing with are actually right and defeats their purpose, vague as it may be many a time 0_o
Well,katie.Good to see atleast one female who has a sense of humor.Maybe you could convince the dumb feminists to get brain surgery or atleast laugh at something else other than ellen degeneres jokes(if that’s even possible).
lol The epitome of impossible. There should be a rehab for the humor impaired to rid society of all the angry kill-joys strangling the life out of the ones who know how to laugh. speaking of allan, has anyone noticed that her name describes her to a tee? degeneres the degenerate, a cooincidence?
I just mentioned to a rebelling fat,ugly feminist who came on this site and said “men are pathetic”,”men are all fags”.So the dumb elephant was obviously saying she could never get laid and was desperate to fuck any man.I told her to go on “the ellen degenerate”show if she wanted sympathy.
Rightly said
Well the simple and obvoius truth is that whimmin when try to disagree withe us men hare really have nothing to say, bacause there are not any REAL arguments which can go against what we say. And any whimmin who tries to disagree anyway autmaticly falls into a trap of aperaing as selfabsorbed cunt, which proves all our points anyway.
Much like a father would when you’d just tied your laces for the first few times.
@WATCHER – “i going to build my own robert….”
Christ. I laughed so hard I almost sharted.
Watcher: Funny as F*. Great example, maybe you should show that to her teacher, you’d likely get her an A*
Did you know there are more women in IT , Middle East and Asia? Western women are brainwashed against science.Then you call yourselvs “civilised” ha!
Western women are brainwashed against science, are you insane? estern women are brainwashed into believing they’re capable of anything, simply untrue. As they display themselves by simply avoiding them like the plague. Civilised? If you mean we don’t fly aircraft full of civilian men, women and children into buildings full of men, women and children whle screaming the name of something that doesn’t exist? If that’s civilised then yes we are.
estern women= Western women.
Lots of women in the middle east and asia in IT? I’m not in IT but I’m guessing you may mean sitting there and feeding information into the memory for the CPU to process. Now I’d also guess this doesn’t require much intelligence, more an aptitude for the mundane, definately a female skill.
Chris=Mr. Empty-pants
I’m starting a computer science course at university very soon. Women have their own special fucking meeting.
How fucking typical of this bullshit feminised “culture”.
As soon as I get my degree, I’m getting right the fuck out of the UK to a more manly country. Any suggestions?
Nope, stay where you are and form your own men meeting.
No matter where you go men can make the smartest things exept one – their own group. Thats where whmmin always beats us – its just the number/group thing.
This way whimmin can ger away with any shit, cos it’s represented by a number.
Captain: At a guess, go east. Women have their own meeting, no suprises there. I wonder whats actually on the agenda.
Captain:: Though studio has a very good point, make your own male only meeting, point out the obvious, men are very logical, they just need the PC blindfold removed.
men created the computers,so of course we are better at using it
It was made for a man’s mind,not women
Well as a person who has been working at an ISP for close to 5 years I can guarantee you that the number of dumb women who have issues about their computers/network/internet etc. is equal to the number of dumb men who have issues with the same issues. Women are just nicer about it on the phone. Men aren’t better at computers than women; they’re just as bad at them and simply fail at simply admitting it and taking advice from a professional.
You women (or are you a mangina?) are un. fucking . believable.
Di you cunts ever give it a rest??
Apple, MSFT and Dell were not started by women. Every computer that was ever made and designed, the internet, every website, game, program, protocol, concept, server, computer language, ISP, programming language, and the guy who installed YOUR VERY OWN internet connection…. and this very website you’re posting on.
menarebetterthanwomen at computers and you fucking KNOW it.
You only talk to people with ISSUES about their internet connection which is someone ELSE’s responsibility to make sure is working…. BECAUSE THEY ARE PAYING FOR IT.
You can’t say “men are just as bad and simply fail at admitting it” when an ISP is down and out of their control.
That’s like saying fat women who don’t get laid are really bad at sucking cock.
I’m in the internet BUSINESS and I still have to talk to a fucking moron at AT&T who hasn’t got a fucking clue…. was it YOU??
Men are better than women.
TWEEK, you must be that lady on the elevator. Are you still holding that button?
Have to disagree with this one… :P
Ha you dumb cunt.
Women do NOT suck at computers. You just suck at being smart. If you think that the bullshit you ramble on about is even a little bit true, you are the biggest fuck ass.
Okay, i am better at computers than ANY men i know, right, and yes, i know that alot of women are all “ooh my god shoes! Oooh paris hilton! YAY! SHOPPING!’ But they are idiots. There is the same amount of dumb men that there are dumb women.
So stop being such a dick and get a fucking life.
When did this start, high school when you couldnt get laid so decided to take it out on women? Well it’s not our fault you are a stupid fuck who cant get any.
I am head of design and development for an Internet Company.
Congratulations… you just met a man who is better at computers than you.
Menarebetterthanwomen.
it’s true.
Women are as good at using computers as they were at inventing them. This truth has obviously upset you.
AND You realize that sex is the only thing you have of value to offer the world by stating Dick can’t “get any”, when you know this is a false statement.
Listen to yourself!
SHE IS AN OLD LADY.
Old people in general suck at technology.
I know at least 50 girls that can program better than Dick Masterson could. Many of them pursuing programming as a career. I’d bet the only thing he’s even good at is insulting the opposite sex.
“I know at least 50 girls that can program better than Dick Masterson could.”
And I know countless men who can program better than all those 50 girls put together – I being one of them.And many of those men, like myself, don’t pursue programming as a career.
Dick, in his own words, is a “Writer, American zeitgeist, and dedicated homme vivant.”I am a company lawyer.There’s no fucking big deal with being able to program.But programming better than someone?Only a fool will say that for some random programmer chicks in comparison with Dick.Does any of those girls own their website, which is more than 3 years old, has more than 3 million hits and probably more than 10 million comments on it?No?Then fuck off.
I meant “personally” know. Like, know and talk to. Do you personally know countless men?
Anyways, my point was that not all women are terrible at technology.
I still find it funny that Masterson used an old person in his example of why all women are hopeless in tech.
His website has “probably more than 10 million comments on it” because he’s good at insulting the opposite sex, and apparently a lot of people starkly agree and disagree with his views. But it really doesn’t take that much skill to make a website, especially one that is a blog.
Hey, go look at his web host and tell me what you see.
Women know only how to spread their legs and fill their holes, up and down. When their mouths are not fill with dicks, they never stop talking.
Well I was disappointed to find not a single girl doing my Computer & Network Technology degree, but I was surprised to find a nice girl studying “Ethical Hacking”… Unless it was Business Computing, not sure. In any case, I just don’t think the majority of women — in modern “Western Society” at least, whatever that actually is — find technology appealing because of their childhood indoctrination to female stereotypes.
Yes, thank you for mentioning the impact of stereotypes. Like it or not, the majority of people are melded by the world around them, only a small, special few make their own way completely. This is why there are so few women in certain roles, like computers. On the positive side, this means that if you are with a woman who joined such a role because of her own personal desire and drive (rather than money and non-merit positions), you will be working with one of the best, most motivated, independent people out there. Welcome to the STEM disciplines.
Look, the impact of stereotypes exist because the stereotypes exist.Just because a few women out there are capable of working with computers doesn’t mean they all are.Most women have little or no aptitude towards technical fields.Most men do.Again, some men also pursue non-technical fields because they are different from the male stereotypes.
People who are different from their group will always try to be different.And most often, in society today, they will succeed.But applying the uniqueness of those few people to their whole group as a general is nothing but stupidity.Feminists always try to wrongly do this.That’s because they are extremely stupid.
I’m saying that the reason that some women have “little or no aptitude towards technical fields” is because their exposure to such fields at a young age is limited or even actively curtailed by society. Half of people graduating with an engineering degree today are women, because there isn’t much of an active societal push against a woman being an engineer, because no one tells little girls that engineering is a boy thing, and because of the successful children outreach programs run by groups such as Society of Women Engineers and Women in Engineering. However, society still paints computers and video games as a ‘boy thing’, and a lot of girls have a natural interest in them but just aren’t part of the small percent of people that aren’t affected by other people’s expectations, and they find a new interest. I’m saying that if society, sadly including children’s own peer groups, ceased to assign a gender to working with computers, and dropped the stigma it has for females in computers (and its distrust and dislike for computer “nerds” in general), more young women would pursue computers as a natural interest, and most people who do what they are drawn to over their lifetime are good at it because people continue to like what they can do well, and because they will put maximum effort into it.
I disagree with you.If half of the women graduating were engineers, then the male:female ratio in all of the major software and mainstream engineering companies wouldn’t have been 3:1.Also, the upper level science classes of any university wouldn’t have been filled by men.You have gotten your statistics wrong.
It has been proven through many studies, which I do not care to cite, that most women have little aptitude toward the hard sciences.If you ignore these studies and the real statistics, and still say that there is a ’societal push’ involved, then I can’t say anything else.
Computers and video games are a ‘boy thing’ because they ARE boy things.Do not tell me that American society is so biased against girls that it doesn’t encourage video games for girls.How many girl gamers do you know?How many independent woman software developers and/or hackers do you know?If a girl wants to be a pc geek, she would be one.No amount of coaxing to play with barbie dolls would make that girl do otherwise.
Please do not post your ignorant feminist ramblings here.Go post them on some other site.No matter how much you feminists try to prove otherwise, girls and boys, men and women can never do the same things.
Ask yourself this question: why do kids in rural areas go into farming related fields much more often than kids in the suburbs and city? The answer is in the environment in which they were raised. “But no amount of making a neat freak kid play in the dirt is going to make him a farmer!” you might naively state. Yes, but I have specifically said that there is a certain percentage of people who are hard-set in what they are, no matter what the influence. My point is that the majority of kids raised on the farm and comfortable with that world would have no interest in it whatsoever, and might even be actively disgusted by it, if they grew up in the city. Same for women and computers. There will always be a few little girls practically born with a mouse in their hand, and I’ve seen first hand that Barbies owned by such girls will simply be found in a dusty pile of play makeup, dolls, and other girly crap that her parents bought for her and she doesn’t want anything to do with. However, most girls would be ok with either, and since everyone expects that she wants to, she picks that up. She may even be actively pushed away from computers and science by her peers, if she ever does start to pick up an interest in these. Studies show that women improve their spatial visualization through playing video games, and they can bridge the gap by playing, which will make it more likely for them to want to be engineers and other scientists. (http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/070927-3416.asp I actually cite my sources when being more specific than simple statistics.) If these girls had been playing since they were young, their spatial skills would already be where they should be. I’ve seen it before: give a young girl Mario and a old IBM clone instead of Polly Pockets and she’ll game, and engineer, right along with the boys.
About your first point.Have you noticed that the majority of great inventors, thinkers, philosophers, businessmen, politicians, social reformers etc. were born in villages?
What do you need to solve a mathematical problem?A pencil/pen, some paper and geometrical instruments if needed.The people who want to solve them will mostly do so.The few women in hard sciences prove my point.
These women don’t go around telling people that women are equally capable as men, they are too busy doing the work of men.They are intelligent enough to understand that they are exceptional.That’s why Mrs. Hopper never preached jack-shit about women not being included or given equal oppurtunity in U.S army.
All human beings can improve their spatial visualization by playing video games, driving at ridiculously high velocities, or jumping off cliffs into water bodies.Women are no exception.But that doesn’t mean that she is going to be as capable in spatial skills as a man with the same training.
Lastly, it is interesting, that by repeatedly pointing out the uselessness of ‘girly’ things and activities and the tremendous value of manly things and activities, you prove Dick’s basic point—Menarebetterthanwomen.
Thank you – RB
I think that women know more about computers than they get credit for. After all the inappropriate behavior in the work place typically comes from them generally from under the desk beaver shots or using the computer to get even with a guy when a date didn’t go well. Guys usually forget a bad date, but women have to make everyone pay!!
I’m a woman and I’m an A+ Certified PC Technician. I work for a large company and I’m pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. I already have an Associates. I’m 21. Just wanted to let you know. :-D
What a moron this author is. How can you just assume women “suck at computers?”. Nice job, grouping them all together, as if they were all the same. Shows just how uninelligent you are. By the way, you have no proof of anything. Women are JUST as good as men are, if not even better. I hate bastards like you, putting women down.
Full of hate, just like a woman.
I don’t see any hate in Ashley’s statement; or are assuming Ben is a woman just because he disagrees with you?
Yes, Ashley’s is another example of a woman using personal experiences to disprove Dick’s points.
Solomon was referring to Ben’s statement when he said ‘full of hate….’And if you notice, 90% of the dissenting men here are women.Get an Ip decrypter and change their Ip hashes to Ip addresses.I’ve done it with a few ‘men’ here, and they all turned out to be women.Enough said?
What do you mean, an “Ip decrypter”? Do you by any chance mean a hash cracker? Which program did you use? What type of hash function is it? How did you identify someone’s gender with an IP? (Assuming they don’t use the same IP for a website with a truthful WHOIS or something similar.) You expect I’m ignorant, don’t you? I’m not as stupid as you look.
Whimmin are cute as fuck when they’re confused.
Look I can easily give you a load of info from searching shit up on the net, but an IP decrypter is an IP decrypter.I’m not a software developer.I don’t know anything about high-level computing beyond some C, Java, HTML, Fox Pro and some other langs.
But, when I want to have something, I get it and when I have to know something, I know it..That’s why I’m a man, and you, my friend, are a whimmin.Guess how I knew that?IP decrypter?Naah, too much trouble—->>Common fucking Sense.
There’s no such thing as an IP decrypter. (I knew that before I googled it, but for proof, it only pulls 4 pages of results and none of them actually have such a program. One has a script for “dotless” URLs, one is a message board asking about something encrypted with a specific hash function, MD5, and the rest are junk sites that pretend to have whatever you search for.) The hash is just some sort of cryptographic function. I think it’s DES or some derivative thereof because it’s 13 characters, and most hashes are some multiple of 8 characters. You know why there’s no such thing as an IP decrypter? Because any IP could be encrypted with any imaginable hash function, and you could use the same hash function to encrypt any string of characters, not just an IP. Nothing you are saying makes any fucking sense. I think YOU are the one who sucks at computers. Also, there you go with a hybrid of the No True Scotsman fallacy and ad hominem attacks by saying I’m female. Your arguments suck. I want you to back up your claims. You’re looking to be full of bullshit right now. And Psiros, I was asking him questions I either knew the fucking answer to or have a good idea of the answer to, because I wanted to know if he really knew what he was talking about. I thought maybe there was a language barrier, but now I’m sure he’s lying. Sooner or later you run into someone who knows what they’re talking about, and then you lose.
Yes, I don’t know much about high level computing(as I said), but I have a software(what I call the IP decrypter) that tells me what an encrypted IP is.
I don’t know how the fuck it works, but it works.You know what it is?The IP Man-Hash.You should try it sometime, and try to track me down.Oh, but you can’t, because I change my IP every half an hour.
Hmmmm…..now how are you going to respond to this?Oh yes!Is it, ‘other people can change their IPs too’ ?- well I don’t give a fuck, you know why?Coz I have found that every man that the IP decrypter says is a woman, happened to BE a woman.Now STFU and GTFO.
You cannot discover a person’s gender by looking only at their IP address, or even by looking at postings to this site that are all tagged with the same “IP Man-Hash.” There are at least two reasons for this: DHCP, and shared IP addresses.
DHCP is how you change your address “every half an hour,” and it gives you addresses from a limited pool. This means that the IP address I’m posting from might have been used by a woman an hour ago.
Shared IP addresses come into existence in two ways: More than one person can use the same computer (for example, that would be the case if my bitch got on here after I was done posting), and more than one person can use the same router (like if my bitch got on the computer on the other side of the room).
In other words, if you see a few postings that claim to be from a man, and a few that claim to be from a woman, and they all have the same IP Man-Hash, you have not proven that the IP address belongs exclusively to a woman, or even that a woman is authorized to use the IP address (single-user Windows systems are the culprit when this happens).
Then you fall in the 28% that remain in the industry. Congrats.
You women need to go to colleges and memorize years upon years about computers and you still don’t understand shit, you just memorize things but you’ll never understand how Man creations work and everything is invented by Men so you’re wasting your time and more important you’re wasting governemnts moneys when those moneys should go to Men because only Men have the intelligence to invent something, women are fucking inferior leech insects,fucking maggots.
Exactly. They just cite the books and laugh off any failures. Met such teachers at the college. They were stuck once I asked about details.
Just wanted to let you know that a brain dead retard can get a A+ certfication and that has no bearing on why women suct at computers!!
Interestingly, the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, was a woman.
Actually, she wasn’t the first programmer. She, like all other “talented” women, is blown way, way out of proportion.
I highly recommend the book “The Cogwheel Brain” by Doron Swade:
http://www.amazon.com/Cogwheel-Brain-Doron-Swade/dp/0316648477/ref=sr_ 1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238481333&sr=1-1
STFU you fucking cow
Try this: when you are at work, stop by the Software Dev Department and count the number of females 1%. Then stop by HR and the front desk, count how many 100%.
Why is there such a large difference; what is it about software, math and logic that women dislike?
It exists, but not in their minds. It´s an endless clusterfuck of unicorns, kittens and Fabios in there.
Unicorns, kittens, and Fabios? -sigh-
Unicorns are merely mythological creatures, in the minds of small girls.
Kittens are…they’re just baby cats. Nothing special about them, and most other girls prefer dogs, anyway.
Fabios….-shakes head- This part is, unfortunately, prone to pop up in the heads of most of those of my gender, much to the embarrassment of those of us who don’t spend all of our time thinking about shopping, small animals, or the latest scandal.
My point is that there are a rare bunch of us who actually think. I’m not claiming to be one, either, but my mind is rather void of thoughts of the above mentioned, much to the disgust of every female in all of my classes at school.
Good for you. My gf’s like that too and it doesn’t bother me in the least. I actually prefer it.
lol, BILL!!! Holy cum bucket! lol XD
I’m a software engineer myself and while I’m pretty good at what I do, I know some women that could kick my ass when it comes to computers. Yeah, HR has mostly women, but then where I work, the director of HR is a man. Then when it comes to the Finance department, it’s about equal with the director being a woman. I work for the city so now that I think about it, we’ve got some pretty awesome women in a lot of areas. Fire, Police, Library and Recreation, there’s amazing women all over the board.