Stop Microsoft
Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: cahult on 30 June 2002, 05:48
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...where are you? So far I
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How do you know I'm not a female?
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w00t
so voidmains secret is revelaed.
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How do you know im not a female...?
Probably the fact that my name is written on all my things i make "John Tate"
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Originally posted by VoidMain:
How do you know I'm not a female?
No way your a woman, those old threads about your military days and your interest in RC planes, etc. are too... too, um, male (http://smile.gif)
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that must mean that it is lesbian (or bi-sexual), because i have seen VoidMain talk about a wife. And i believe i have heard of kids... adopted?
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there used to be a few female contestants here, but they got bored i think and left. The stayers have all been males. And no new women seem to have turned up for a while.
I think it must be the whole "women getting conditioned not to be technical" thing coupled with the fanboy element of posting in a forum on a REGULAR basis.
I seem to remember seeing this in linuxquestions.org recently too, where they have about 10000 posters (not all active though), and the active female ones can be counted on the fingers of one hand!
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Maybe one of us should actually go out and try to get some women to the boards without sending them screaming away in horror.
Didnt/doesnt the Webmaster have a bitc..uhh... girlfriend, maybe he should get her posting here (http://chatroom.fuckmicrosoft.com:8000/images/spinsmile.gif)
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Originally posted by Calum:
I think it must be the whole "women getting conditioned not to be technical" thing coupled with the fanboy element of posting in a forum on a REGULAR basis.
or maybe we're bored....?
(http://tongue.gif)
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Originally posted by Master of Reality / Bob:
Didnt/doesnt the Webmaster have a bitc..uhh... girlfriend, maybe he should get her posting here (http://chatroom.fuckmicrosoft.com:8000/images/spinsmile.gif)
I want to get mad, but I used to exactly that same thing in the past (obviously when I had no girlfriend).
Anyway, she's not a geek; she has a life. (http://smile.gif) And I've converted her off Windows, which I think will suffice.
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Coverting from windows is an excellant for a person with a life to achieve (http://smile.gif)
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I resurect this thread, becasue I think it is legitmate. My G/F does occasionally puruse (but not post), but there is a considerable lack of women in the engineering business, and I guess computing is no more so.
However I would ask people don't use *ahem* sexy images in their signatures and stuff. When my G/F does visit the last thing she wants to see is some girlie pics, it's alienating, and keeps up the image of blokish behaviour, and not the intelligent discussion forum this place often is.
Of course this might be taken as a refusal of your rights to do what the hell you want, and fair enough, but it's still worthy of discussion, thinks I. Of course this is inspired by Sporkme / bob, and I intend no insult to you, and I am not trying to force you to remove your sig., but I would be interested in the views of others.
At what point is free expression to be given way to the prefered will of the majority, if at all? Is a person's own perception of acceptability always good for a community? And now I think about it, this would apply to M$s' market control. Hmmmm....thinks.....ouch that hurts.
[ August 06, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]
[ August 06, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]
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Good post. And as I've said before I don't particularly like to see *any* embedded images in posts. But rather than fussing over it I have a way of dealing with it. I use my proxy server to block any site that images are linked to and I get a nice clean forum...
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There are females here, well at least one anyway. I only post if i have something to say and it hasn't been said already. As for the animated gif, it doesn't offend me ,but i could see how other women could be offended by it. To tell you the truth, not many women are into computers. I guess they associate computers with things like TVs and other electronics as being "male stuff". The conditioning theory is pretty much on the mark there. Sometimes i will sign up for a forum, ask a few questions and not post for a long time or ever again. Mainly because my questions have been answered or people are having a problem that i don't have the answer to. Sometimes i quit posting because i don't like the vibe of a place, it really depends.
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Heh heh, well if you can handle the "vibes" of this place then then I suppose the places you won't go to is a pretty short list. (http://smile.gif)
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LOL, true. Normally, i only leave if people start posting gyno shots or act like XP luser en masse. This is one of the more tamer boards i go to.
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Ok I asked my wife if she had anything to say to
this forum but she is too busy with an application
for the big-evil Canadian bank she works at...sigh!
Well I tried.
There seems to be lots of females in the computer
programming course at my school, in comp-sys there
are only 4 girls...I think we scared the rest off.
I have been trying to talk my niece(age 10) into
computers but to no avail...sigh!