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Oct. 11th, 2001 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danuvNifty article about female hackers.
"the vast majority of women at this year's Def Con were girlfriends or hangers-on "
I think perhaps women might be more easily categorized as a 'girlfriend' or 'hanger on' at these sort of events when there are probably more there that are actually interested in learning but they get pigeonholed as not because they are women and only taken seriously if their level of knowledge is pretty far up there. Kinda sad since these sorts of cons are supposed to be for learning and there are vast hordes of geek boys there who's sincerity isn't in question just because they are male. For instance, I don't (by any stretch of the imagination) consider myself a 'hacker' but I bet there will be more than one boy at PhreakNIC who knows less than I do about computers. My interest in them comes and goes but my interest in almost anything comes and goes. My attention span is not the greatest. So even though I might actually be just as interested in learning as the guys (or some at least) at PhreakNIC I will, no doubt, be classified as a girlfriend. Hmph.
"the vast majority of women at this year's Def Con were girlfriends or hangers-on "
I think perhaps women might be more easily categorized as a 'girlfriend' or 'hanger on' at these sort of events when there are probably more there that are actually interested in learning but they get pigeonholed as not because they are women and only taken seriously if their level of knowledge is pretty far up there. Kinda sad since these sorts of cons are supposed to be for learning and there are vast hordes of geek boys there who's sincerity isn't in question just because they are male. For instance, I don't (by any stretch of the imagination) consider myself a 'hacker' but I bet there will be more than one boy at PhreakNIC who knows less than I do about computers. My interest in them comes and goes but my interest in almost anything comes and goes. My attention span is not the greatest. So even though I might actually be just as interested in learning as the guys (or some at least) at PhreakNIC I will, no doubt, be classified as a girlfriend. Hmph.
