why are gentoo users primarily male ?

puggy · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 5:02 pm Post subject:

If you don't mind me asking, how did you manage to avoid this socilization?

Puggy

P.S. Is your avatar just a giant equality symbol or does it have some sort of meaning?
EDIT: Hmm, that has an unexpected overlap with the topic in hand. :-D

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lisa · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 5:18 pm Post subject:

Lovechild · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 6:06 pm Post subject:

there's another option.

We may have more female users than we know off - not all users register for the forum, and only the really brave ones tell the rest of us that they are infact female..

I submit Brandy's welcome thread as the proof of this part of the theory.

That being said, I have a gut feeling that girls like to use their computers rather than engaging themselves in a "movement".. I found however that girls are more avid Linux gamers than men - The KDE games pack fx. is a big succes in my home with the women.

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madchaz · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 5:31 am Post subject:

well, this is actualy something a girl who attended school with me told me that might explain it.

She basicaly told me this a few weeks before she droped out of computer science.

Basicaly, women don't think the same way men do. This was actualy proven. Men have better analitical sences. This comes down to understanding how and where you're going to be able to find something that moves, a prey. We have a better logical mind. We focus better on one thing. But we can't devide our attention between things as well.

Women on the other hand have better memory. It used to be to remember where the fruits / roots / picked stuff was to be found. And what was good and what wasn't to eat. Women also multi task better then men, but can't concentrate on one problem as well. Women have better memory and ability to devide there attention. They remember better and can focus on more things at once, but can't concentrate as hard on one as men.

How men and women aproche house work is a great exemple of that. The avarage woman will do 3 or 4 things at once. Cook, clean, do some laundry. Men will do one thing then go to the next. Most will clean, then cook, then do the laundry. They also tend to figure out when they will do what better.

If you want some proff of how men and women don't think the same, try this. Ask a man for directions, and ask a woman. The woman is more likely to give you street names and numbers, where the man is more likely to give you land marks.

Men and women may be equals, but doesn't mean they are the same.

BTW, this was generalisations. There are always exceptions.
And for those who claim I'm sexist because I took women down in my post, you might want to consider what you think is puting them down. I only stated differences, didn't say they were less ;-)

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madchaz · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 5:14 pm Post subject:

zojas · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 11:37 pm Post subject:

as an anecdote, I have a good friend who happens to be female. She wanted to get a linux disk from me to try out. She told me that she has always been interested in computers, but her father (an engineer!) discouraged her from playing with them when she was younger! so now she rebuilds cars for a living.

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lisa · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:19 am Post subject:

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Nerdanel · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 8:27 am Post subject:

I'm a woman and have been a Gentoo user from since the last fall. (Hitting on me will have 0 chance of success by the way - just a precaution.) I switched from Mandrake because it was too boring and the rpms were annoying. I study IT at a technical university which is male-dominated even though here universities are generally female-dominated.

I know I'm different. I just happened to get logical genes from my father and no one told me girls don't understand math or computers. I think the difference between men and women is real but vastly and artificially grown by our culture.

hypr · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 8:44 am Post subject: improving the ratio...

As chance would have it, I happen to be currently installing gentoo for my little sister, so I can teach her how to run this mysterious "Linux" thing before she heads back to college in the fall.

(My quarter starts nearly a month after her semster, so I'm flying east with her to explore Boston for about 10 days (and set up Gentoo for her on a nice shiny new box that will hopefully be there by the time we are! :-)

So, assuming she enjoys it (and it looks like she will, judging by her reaction to my KDE desktop and other neat Linuxey things), you can add one to your roster of female gentoo users. :wink:

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puggy · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 9:47 am Post subject:

charlieg · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 10:20 am Post subject:

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jkcunningham · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 2:34 pm Post subject:

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dma · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 12:43 am Post subject:

This is supposed to be our escape from women (and other irrationalities). Supposed to be at least...

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puggy · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 12:11 pm Post subject:

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Ehhhm..., hey Puggy, next time I have a problem, which will be real soon as I'm stuck here with a phenomenon I cannot explain, am I allowed to ask You whether You could help me?
My impression now is that the guys here would disapprove of a female intrusion.
Really makes me shudder.
Or should I be :oops:

of being one such intruder?

Nice to have a friend

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P.s.: isn't the subject ot enough to make do with it once and forever?

Corporal Dan · n00b Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

Check out:
"Why are There so Few Female Computer Scientists?"
at http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/Gender/pap/node4.html