I'm a female sysadmin, who knows her way around sendmail (including sendmail.cf instead of just .mc), apache, things of Linux and Windows, and who has been dabbling with the computers well-over 20 years by now. I put together my own computers and servers, install them from the beginning like some people rear their children with love and care...
...and then I get idiots like these doing shitty sites that show what women really want from the Internet and their computers.
I already had one troglodyte of a boss tell me -- out of earshot, he thought, hah, as if there's such thing as out of earshot in a cubicle hell -- that the next women the company hires should have "brew coffee for men" clause in their job contract.
Me, I think he's very happy to know that even if I am very easily angered and my anger burns with slow hot fire like that of a red giant, I'm professional enough not to do something like load his laptop with all kinds of questionable loli pr0n "hidden" into a simply hidden folder when he's off to Hawaii (!) for a conference (!!) and has to cross the Atlantic Ocean and enjoy the US Customs and its attention.
I think it is time to get out combat gear, and shout the name of Ada Lovelace in our electronic jihad.
When I overheard this convo, I was working on packing electronics for a next product batch to be assembled (embedded prototypes for a new flagship product-to-be), and I was thus handling heavy, sharp scissors used to cut stuff needed for the product.
I mentioned that easily flaring up anger, right?
He's very lucky, indeed.
Fortunately, I work there no mo'. My immediate superior was cool, tho. When I told him of that particular thing, his expression was priceless, as was the commentary that followed: "He really doesn't think, does he? Absolutely no processing for anything that comes out of his mouth, all that matters is that something is being said."
You win. Perhaps you should explain their blunder to them?
I'm all for laptops coming in cool and shiny colours. I am against dumbing down marketing so "women will get it" and basing your marketing on sexist assumptions about women.
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Date: 2009-05-16 12:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-16 07:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-16 10:32 am (UTC)This makes my work and life hard.
I'm a female sysadmin, who knows her way around sendmail (including sendmail.cf instead of just .mc), apache, things of Linux and Windows, and who has been dabbling with the computers well-over 20 years by now. I put together my own computers and servers, install them from the beginning like some people rear their children with love and care...
...and then I get idiots like these doing shitty sites that show what women really want from the Internet and their computers.
I already had one troglodyte of a boss tell me -- out of earshot, he thought, hah, as if there's such thing as out of earshot in a cubicle hell -- that the next women the company hires should have "brew coffee for men" clause in their job contract.
Me, I think he's very happy to know that even if I am very easily angered and my anger burns with slow hot fire like that of a red giant, I'm professional enough not to do something like load his laptop with all kinds of questionable loli pr0n "hidden" into a simply hidden folder when he's off to Hawaii (!) for a conference (!!) and has to cross the Atlantic Ocean and enjoy the US Customs and its attention.
I think it is time to get out combat gear, and shout the name of Ada Lovelace in our electronic jihad.
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Date: 2009-05-16 11:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-16 12:50 pm (UTC)*gpare* only if it has a clausde that says she can then pour it on the misogynist git. *headdesk*
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Date: 2009-05-16 01:26 pm (UTC)I mentioned that easily flaring up anger, right?
He's very lucky, indeed.
Fortunately, I work there no mo'. My immediate superior was cool, tho. When I told him of that particular thing, his expression was priceless, as was the commentary that followed: "He really doesn't think, does he? Absolutely no processing for anything that comes out of his mouth, all that matters is that something is being said."
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Date: 2009-05-16 12:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-18 08:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-19 12:36 pm (UTC)Looking up recipes? Tracking your diet?
FAIL.
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Date: 2009-05-19 03:06 pm (UTC)Mockery, belittling stereotyping pastel crap = bad idea.
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Date: 2009-05-19 05:42 pm (UTC)I'm all for laptops coming in cool and shiny colours. I am against dumbing down marketing so "women will get it" and basing your marketing on sexist assumptions about women.