Comments on: Girl Geeks http://listics.com/20060729426 Frank Paynter's Voice and Vision... Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:15:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Liz Henry http://listics.com/20060729426#comment-3197 Liz Henry Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:48:20 +0000 http://listics.com/20060729426#comment-3197 Whose geek street cred are you questioning, Shelley? That's a pretty geeky list up there. Kaliya: geek. Liza: geektastic. Mary: hugeass geek. I learned computer programming on punch cards when I was 6 ... and at every engineer job interview the focus of the interview was the interviewers' slack-jawed wonderment that I was "interested in computers". But I shouldn't have to say that, because to a lot of people right now, being able to modify the html in a Typepad template makes you a studly geek. It doesn't help to mystify things even more and make a caste system of knowledge and counter-hipness to make a bunch of people (women) feel ignorant and unwelcome in tech conversations. Whose geek street cred are you questioning, Shelley? That’s a pretty geeky list up there. Kaliya: geek. Liza: geektastic. Mary: hugeass geek.

I learned computer programming on punch cards when I was 6 … and at every engineer job interview the focus of the interview was the interviewers’ slack-jawed wonderment that I was “interested in computers”.

But I shouldn’t have to say that, because to a lot of people right now, being able to modify the html in a Typepad template makes you a studly geek. It doesn’t help to mystify things even more and make a caste system of knowledge and counter-hipness to make a bunch of people (women) feel ignorant and unwelcome in tech conversations.

]]> By: Shelley http://listics.com/20060729426#comment-3151 Shelley Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:54:21 +0000 http://listics.com/20060729426#comment-3151 Having a weblog is not being a geek. Repeat. Having a weblog is not being a geek.

Repeat.

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