And for me, as one of the few women in my CS program: plenty of opportunities, and plenty of douchebags.
Back in my day the saying was: The odds are good but the goods are odd!
If they were just odd they’d have a lot more success because you kind of have to be odd to be good at CS.
It’s more the rapey, incely, tendency to see women as a different and incoherent species that has the women in CS either walking around with their hackles raised all the time or quietly slipping out the back door.
And just like programming: I’m going to copy this line and pretend it’s mine!
It was like this in my CS department a decade ago, too. There was me, one other gal, and for a while a German exchange student who wanted nothing to do with either of us in the entire grad program. I learned to talk a lot louder over the course of that program.
Who on earth decided to leave the projector on while they took the group photo?
And why did no one in the group think to turn it off, like the guy in the middle who appears to be staring directly into the projector light.
I’m sure he thought about it. Probably thinking “how does no one realize this is awful. Someone should do something”
You racist! They are ogars!
Girls don’t wanna work in CS because CS boys always be treating the class like a hookup scene. And it’s not every boy, but if there’s 2 girls and 20 boys in the class, and 10% of the boys are being creeps, then you’ve already got a problem.
Parents have gotta stop teaching their sons to see class as a dating opportunity. On campus, sure, but not in the classroom.
I see plenty opportunities!
Yo that guy’s shirt looks like the pornhub logo
You realize there are other departments, right? The archaeology and art history students are just as nerdy and horny.
The girls in the class will figure themselves out eventually
Too many dicks on the dance floor (too many dicks)
Flight of the Conchords, 2009
Ryan Stiles, center, white t-shirt. Where’s Colin Mochrie?
You could get a boyfriend, at least
And now you know why programmer socks are a thing.
Go to Yoga and dance classes.
I work on software that you’re probably using right now, and my company is like 60% women. It’s wonderful. We spend a lot of our (very few) meetings talking about our feelings, discussing hair and skincare, and gossiping about each other’s love lives. The inter-team drama sometimes gets pretty funny though. We’ve been in a passive-aggressive fued with another team since some time last year.
It’s also extremely gay. Everyone always says they love working with me, but all i do is go around flirting with my work crushes and having fun.
