Jeni's Musings

I have read through this, and through all the comments, and I people seem to miss one important point.

put simply “Stop hitting on us all the goddamn time”. Turn upto a geek conference as a women and you will spend the entire time fighting off the letching geeks (admittedly it has its uses, a whole conference without buying a drink :p ). It wears you down. We don’t want to goto work to be letched over. We go to be treated equally.

Secondly, why do companies, in particullary tech companies insist on making things “pink, to appeal to women”, case in point look at the Komen tote laptop bag on think geek, guess what, its got pink on it. Why?

In the IT sector the larger strength of men is irrelevant (unless you are rack mounting cisco or sun kit :p ), its about your mental skill, and in that women are as good as men. Treat us like that. Don’t give us preferential treatment. But at the same time don’t treat us negatively. We are equal.

J