why are gentoo users primarily male ?

[puggy]

[masseya]

I'm not nearly as concerned with why there are so many male/few female gentoo users as I am about the fact that everyone on these forum boards is fixated with this concept.
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[EasterParade]

Thanks Puggy,

not taking it that seriously. Fact is I have learned very much already by browsing the forum since my first gentoo-installation.
Now I'm on to fine-tuning and since I'm not a geek but a real newbie to linux in general and gentoo specifically I've decided to start posting.

I haven't come to learn the gentoo-forum to be in any way sexist or difficult to enter, at least not like many others where You really ask yourself whether You'll expose yourself when You dare posting and never come back afterwards.

As to gentoo-bugs I'd rather stick to the rules and ask publicly.

Have a nice weekend - to all

transsib

[benca1]

[mmealman]

[felldown]

I recently made my sister a computer and put gentoo on it. I offered to install Windows, but she wanted linux. She said she wanted it to look cool in front of me. =D. Peer pressure is cool. Also, she likes to tell people she uses linux because it makes her feel "h4x0r". My sister is cool. I think she likes it so far. She is definitely impressed by portage and this cool "emerge" thing that she uses to get new programs. She also feels gnome is much cleaner than any Windows UI.

My girlfriend is forced to use linux, because she is staying with me and that's what's on my desktop. She does okay with it, but she has certain biases against it, because of certain issues, most of which stem from missing particular Windows apps or annoyances caused by my constant tweeking. Once I setup gdm to launch two login sessions on different virtual terminals at boot-up, it's been pretty nice to share, though.

[nephros]

[EasterParade]

My boyfriend is Mr. Unix. In the time of Commodore and Amiga he already used Unix on the comps of the institute. He knew programming in C at a time when I didn't dare to touch the power button of theses boxes.

When we started living together it annoyed me that he spent sundays at the box.
I hated to be a bystander so we started building our computers ourselves. Today I enjoy fiddling with the hardware and picking what I like best.
I do this on my own without the help of my friend. This box here too has been baked in my kitchen.

Our private Windows use ended on Jan 1 this year. We've about had it.

So we went from Suse to Slackware to Gentoo within four month.
And if there is any issue ( and there are issues - most of them just annoying but nothing that locks me out of my system ) it's got to be me who takes care of it.
I am root on my system ( a more or rather less experienced root ) and my boyfriend would never help in any way.
Not because he doesn't like to help, rather because our systems configurations differ so much as so make any help from his side very difficult.
So I learn and I love it and if I could eradicate a problem or get something running it's pure bliss

transsib

[dvink]

I think that computer science does not really have a bad men/women ratio compared to some engineering sciences. I'm in Control Engineering and it completely lacks women.

Perhaps some users find this thread silly or a non-issue simply because they have never been in a working environment that has no women whatsoever. I'm getting really sick of all those men and I really start to miss any day to day interaction with women. If I want to talk to a women then I need to go to a bar and start a conversation, which I 've tried and was a true disaster.

I believe that I'm still human, although this may well be a moot point, but I doubt whether my day to day life can be called socially healthy to any degree. Well, as far as this Gentoo forum is concerned, there is still a men/women ratio to speak of. I hope it stays that way.

[puggy]

[someguy]

my girlfriend runs linux (redhat and slack) and shes verry hot
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[t1deman]

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[vitriol]

My wife would just as soon use my linux box as turn on her own windows box...(the only windows box in my home). Her computer takes so long to boot up (inferior OS's tend to be that way) that she would rather use my computer. All she's doing is check her email anyways.
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[pranyi]

[Yen]

I'm used to have a small number of girls around me, there are only 2 girls @ my school...

... And that sucks!

[petrjanda]

shees people, just like most car technicians are male, most industry workers are male, then most linux and gentoo users are male. Simply women are not often into technical stuff that is sometimes pain in the ass to get working.

[wolvenwraith]

All this is pretty interesting, but I think the single most biggest factor is the intimidation factor that goes into it all. My girlfriend uses Gentoo Linux (surprise surprise). She loves it, and she always swears up and down that she'll never go back to Windows. But here's the thing... the horny little computer nerd b*stards that try to pick up any girl that even shows the slightest interest in computers. Believe me, my girlfriend's been asked out several times after talking to these types of people. Think about it, if you were to go to a computer convention of some sort, if there were two or three girls there, wouldn't you notice them? Well, usually they're surrounded by a bunch of guys lol. (I've actually seen girls fake it for the attention). But the intimidation factor and constant harassment and the feeling of being out-of-place that our society puts on them, and the view expressed by society that "the female should take care of the kids, clean the house, cook dinner, and tend to the husband". Keep in mind, most of these statements are generalizations and there are always exceptions (like my girlfriend )

[monotux]

I'm so tired of this society - everything is geared towards male and female - as it actually matters what gender you are born into.
Why can't people just see people as people?

There have always been people who are convinced that they are born with wrong "things" (since my english is quite bad and unimaginative I won't use any other word here ^^) between their legs as women - today, they can have their gender changed.
The interesting thing is that it's only males (changing into female) who can have a decent life as women afterwards - they are given a working vagina, they can have sex, have orgasms and so forth (I think that's all that actually is the difference between male and female, the sex-part [excluded from giving birth hehe], what person you are doesn't change when your sex is changed...) - but when women are changing into men, they don't have the same possibility to live (since no-one have bothered to invent artificial-erection) - that might be because all scientists are male?

Anyways - since a few persons already have mentioned it (don't ask me to mention who they were, I'm very bad with names...), I don't see any point to write that girls are raised to like dolls and beeing vain, while boys are raised to like cars, tanks and machines - but if a male becomes vain, other people (not only boys, but girls also) starts to call him gay, and if a girl starts to act like a boy, she is called (swedish people, find a good translation to 'manshaftig', and the others - we have reached the limits of my vocabulary) ...

I had something else to say, something sensible actually, but that thought slipped out of my hands before I could write it down...
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[Elm0]

retribute, interesting post, the word your looking for in english is 'tomboy'