And in the hacker community we’ve created such a hostile environment to women that despite half of humans being women, and women before the 80’s being well represented in the technology industry, there are basically no women. There are a lot of culture and history articles posted here, particularly of the bent of an interesting analysis of some obscura. I don’t mind women talking about women’s cultural topics and history, so long as it’s interesting new information, any more than I mind the posts about archeology or various ancient societies that are posted here and discussed regularly.

Perhaps then we might get some more women hanging out with us. I personally find the monoculture in technical communities tedious, and the grief women get for asserting themselves in any way at all depressing. I just hope we can change all this before my daughter gets old enough to be excluded and taught her place is somewhere other than here.