Dec 16 2009Shocking News: Geeks Scare Women Away From Pursuing Careers In Computer Science

Thanks to FDSY, who is known by the women as "Hey you, behind the bushes" ...... just sayin

I wish I was as cool as the guy in the picture.

Of course their perspective is missing.. as it should be. Women use emotion more than logic.

Crying won't make your computer do what you want.

If I wanted a feminine computer I'd go out and buy a mac.

Excuse me! Geekologie people! Can you please delete this photo?

My mom caught me by surprise when she brought me my juice box & cookies.

I did not give you permission to host it, so delete it.

I shouldn't have to keep asking.

Nex time, I'm coming after your bacon!

I have a lot of other good shots on my website, but not nearly as many shots as I take in the mouth down at the local glory hole on a Thursday evening
........... just sayin

I wonder what types of women they were interviewing.

@4 stop the hatin' y'all.

The real question is 'do we want women who are dumb enough to throw themselves off a good career choice due to a stereotype to have that career in the first place?'

The answer is yes, because we take what we can get.

@4 LOL

The difference between a mac and a a woman is that women have a period only ones a month.

That and women some times need a douchebag and the Mac guy is a douchebag.

"That stereotype doesn't appeal to many women who don't like the portrait of masculinity that it evokes."

Somehow i don't think its the "masculinity" that is driving the women away...

Where'd you dig up that cool cup of hawt sawce???

um...oh yeah..........diggin the mullet...just sayin.

women there is nothing wrong in making sammwiches for me so quit your belling aching

@ 1 I see my reputation precedes me.

And what GW was saying is that I drive girls from the locker room and into my pants ( metaphorically {im talking about vaginal penetration})!

His name was Gordon Shumway...

I've seen so many captions for this pic before & thought that was GW before the surgery BEFORE the surgery if you catch my drift

@11 what GW's saying is that you pick them up from the locker room in your open-topped car and drive them up to make-out point. Boom, boom, boom shake the room. Tick, tick, tick, tick, Boom!

And later you get some barbecue pork and some bud, and you make them wear chewbaka masks. It gets messed up. Pretty soon they all get a job in the computer sciences department of dog the bounty hunter's show. Because he's the big bad dog, not you.

But i work in computers!!!!

....and am the only female in a 30 person department....and am surprisingly good at videogames....

Touche

I see some pussy gets around these excellent men...
(Ahem.... bottom right corner!)

@12 Does he also enjoy eating cats?

@12 unshaven cats, yes

misfire, @17

Oh shit, this guy looks a little like a fatter, older version of me.

"Check out this side boob...."

@5
Fantastic work. I applaud you.

@ Gordon "By the third season, I was completely wasted all the time. I had lost all control of my bodily functions. They had to cut the crap out of my fur before each taping. But would I do it all again?"

Does anyone know the origin of that picture? I've seen it a lot but never knew who it was or where it came from lol.

what the fuck would you like us to do about it? Stop enjoying the things we enjoy so women can have their way? So I'm no longer allowed to enjoy my culture because its no PC and it scares women? Well fuck that.

As a male graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science on Saturday, I can safely confirm that those stereotypes are not true. I don't have THAT much memorabilia.
I also try to make a point to not work on computers in my underwear. But sometimes it can't be helped. It's not like I do it in public or in front of a camera!

WTF does the "female perspective" have to do with computer science?

Not one thing. That's what.

How on Urf would the "female perspective" change anything that has to do with programming or assembly?

It has no impact.

lol @ 3 & 20

side boob [check]
femullet [check]
backass [check, check, check]

i think i'm in love.

@26 can you defer from saying 'Urf' when referring to terra firma? It sounds stupid & you don't seem the type.... just sayin

That's NOT a mullet that's long out of control backhair.

UNLESS... he's channeling zach f-ron and it's really his bangs thrown back.
Either way.. me-yow.

good! it should stay that way.
less competition for me!

i wanted to be one of those few cute chicks on G4techtv before it became another Spike Tv.
Olivia Munn is so ruining it for me.
But I'll figure out a way to PEWPEWPEW her out of the competition.

Please, oh dear god, please remove that picture. I just hurled in my mouth. Alot.

But, but, but! There is also a kitten in that picture! Redeem?

Absolutely true. I met a girl in college who asked what degree I was. She said, as long as you're not in computer science, those guys are all geeks.

@32 - @31's link is a palette cleanser for what happened up there

There is a cat at the bottom right of the picture =)

I think all this means is that women are sexists who only want to work with hot guys. Like me.... oh, hold on...

Apart from that, the pic is clearly a photoshop job. You see, the shadows....

Looks just like me

Non of these stereotypes keep me from pursuing my career in Computer Science. But then again, what I do can be done from home, away from the ogling eyes of guys like in the picture above, trying to start conversation on how the second Death Star was built and my thoughts. I'm not the sociable type anyhow.

Strangely enough male geeks are more attracted to female geeks. Finding an attractive geek girl is a sacred quest that all young geeks set themselves upon....

Wait, the geek stereotype was *NOT* supposed to appeal? Damn, I guess I have to trade Yoda, dota, halo and my soldering iron in for a husband and an oven. Someone ask June Cleaver if I can borrow her pumps and pearls...

@ 41

Hellooooo! How r u doin?

(case in point)

Or women just rather do something else? How is that so hard to believe? Maybe the women theyre asking don't have any interest in computers in the first place. You've got to atleast have an interest first before considering going into the field. The women that WILL have the interest are the women that like the sci-fi things etc.

Anyway, I'd rather have a man work on my computer so I can hit on him furiously as he works on my mother board ohhh godd yeah just a little to the left... littttleee too.. NO TOO FAR! TOOO FARRRR!!!

Dear GW,

Where do you find all these ridiculous pictures of people? First, the awesomest picture I have ever seen in your ninja article - http://www.geekologie.com/2009/11/ninja_fail_overconfident_and_d.php

and this ridiculous guy with a mullet.

ARE THEY PAST PICTURES OF YOU? WHO ARE THEY?
-wes-

why have you got a picture of my sister?!!?!

@40 I lucked out. My wife is smart as hell AND one of those women who looks pretty without make up. She had her BA in Biology and was finishing her masters in Education, at the age of 24, when I met her......... just sayin

i think im a geek. but i don't look like that. :)

Thank you for this site, very interesting informations.
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As a lady science geek myself If I am lucky enough to stumble across a pack of geeks in the lab all I think is JACKPOT!!!! Smart is soooooo sexy... damn what was the point of this again...a negative stereotype? Not working officially turn on.

As a fellow female Computer Science major I do not understand why women would not want to major in Comp Science. I Loved it. Even if the stereotypes of computer games, science-fiction memorabilia and junk food are true, they were/are still fun as hell. Oh well, they are missing out.

The picture could easily be one of me. :-)

The study competely misses the point and just doesn't understand the background.

"There was a subset of women in the study who didn't view the stereotypical objects as masculine and geeky and aren't turned off by the associated office or classroom."

They chose to competely ignore that one little bit, instead of digging deeper into the subject. Becoming Computer Geek doesn't start with the college. It starts way back when you were just becoming a teenager. I wrote my first lines of programming code at 10. If you start fresh studying Computer Sciences in College the best you can do is become good at something that is done on a computer, but doesn't have much to do with the inner workings of the computer itself. You need that earlier experience where you battled some drivers, wrote some code, hex-edited a file and tryied to hack something, anything. And that's what hooked you on. That's what interested you in the field. And since I know girls like that, I also know they are pretty much into things like Fantasy Literature, Comics, Star Trek, Star Wars, Computer Games and empty Coke cans. Yep, they're Geek! Women can be that too. And some are verry, verry good at it! Those girls would study Computer Sciences in College because they are interested in the field and it doesn't matter even if that room had dead racoons in it.

On the other hand those young women who do not know where they're at and what to do with themselves, they are interested in the paycheck, not the field - they would run away at any mention of non standart thinking. Now why is that would be far more interesting and showing study.

Who cares who is dominated by and what perspective is given, as long as you enjoy doing what you do.

@4: That made me laugh, thank you.

@3: This is true. I play video games and I do definitely enjoy blood and guts and awesomely epic cinematic sequences and all the other stereotypical "video games are violent and bad" stuff. But being a girl, I am still drawn to cute stuff in games. Except gay pink stuff. That is for the gays. GAY.

I'm 20, I play video games, I like nerdy things, I love dinosaurs and zombies and STAR WARS. I'm of the female persuasion. And yet I'm not some morbidly obese chick in love with Hello Kitty who faps to characters from the FF series or Twilight.

Also, I'm going to school for game design. I'm maybe 1 out of 10 girls who go to my school (ITT) and 1 out of 3 who aren't cat loving FF fappers. And yes, there are those stereotypical nerds there who are fat and carry around their NeoGeo collection and have packages of Twislers in their back pockets.

But that didn't stop me from getting into a technical field!

Yeah some of the guys creep me out, but I'll put up with that no problem if it means I have a shot at working for Bethesda.

Best part: all those "weirdos" that they are saying drive women from technical careers make for great stories. You should hear the stuff that happens at my school and see some of the people who attend it. I LOVE IT.

Also, @44: L2internet.

women wouldn't be any good at it anyways cause if we did things their ways and tried to figure out what a computer was 'feeling' when it crashed, nothing would ever get done.

It was not the geek stereotype that drove me away from the comp sci major (all the way to music, too), it was the goddamn smell. Ugh. If there is one thing that women could contribute to the field, it would be the attribute of not smelling that badly. Our comp sci building is like walking into an armpit.

But these studies are nothing new. What I'd like to know is why there are more male MUSIC majors than female. And why neuroscience and molecular biology are being taken over by females at my school (which is 50/50 m/f).

i fuck geeks.

what's wrong with computer games, science fiction memorbilia, and junk food? some of the main reasons I want to go into computer science. people are stupid sometimes.

aww the most spineless women that require hand holding around geeks and math courses will be scared away...AS THEY SHOULD BE! what ever happened to strong women? if you can't handle being around aspergered geeks its not the business for you. geeks only care that you can deliver, not that you are popular.

and people have to stop with the idea that everyone is always 50/50. you think the prisons are 50/50 men women? course not, they are full of dudes. that person caught sniffing the supermarket workers ass crack? a dude. so you gotta give the dudes the imbalance in tech fields, its only fair.

aww the most spineless women that require hand holding around geeks and math courses will be scared away...AS THEY SHOULD BE! what ever happened to strong women? if you can't handle being around aspergered geeks its not the business for you. geeks only care that you can deliver, not that you are popular.

and people have to stop with the idea that everyone is always 50/50. you think the prisons are 50/50 men women? course not, they are full of dudes. that person caught sniffing the supermarket workers ass crack? a dude. so you gotta give the dudes the imbalance in tech fields, its only fair.

aww the most spineless women that require hand holding around geeks and math courses will be scared away...AS THEY SHOULD BE! what ever happened to strong women? if you can't handle being around aspergered geeks its not the business for you. geeks only care that you can deliver, not that you are popular.

and people have to stop with the idea that everyone is always 50/50. you think the prisons are 50/50 men women? course not, they are full of dudes. that person caught sniffing the supermarket workers ass crack? a dude. so you gotta give the dudes the imbalance in tech fields, its only fair.

#%@ firefox lol i hit refresh and it reposts.:(

I'm a proud computer science student and... woman, OF COURSE.

That's bullshit because women who really care about computer science do not need to pay attention to weird computer geeks.

If a woman loves something she only needs her love to pursue her dreams! Not a fancy cool boy.

In addition, computer science courses have so many boys that we only have to pick one by one... there are a lot of choices, if you know what I mean... ahah :D

So... long live the computer science course, and that stupid stereotype :D

I'm a female who just so happens to be a computer science major, huge xbox360 gamer, and a star wars fan but yet i was a cheerleader, prom queen, an Rotc queen. I'm proud to be a computer science major and being a women in it just makes it all the much better!!.

What is weird though is I'm the only girl in the class and most of the guys in the class just stare at me. When I have a question they don't talk to me...

At least if there was another girl in the class, I might have someone to talk too.
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