Reply #53: yep, some of the most blatant sexism I've seen is from programmers [View All]

[Runcible Spoon]

my fiance works with them, and they're nice to my face and have no problem with me, but they think they're owed hot women and are really bitter when they fail at picking them up. They've been fed media hype about geeks being the new sex symbols of our generation, and think that just by being able to code in every language means women should fall onto their dicks.

I game, too, WoW formerly but just started Age of Conan and holy mother of Jayzuz is that a hostile environment for women. It's gotten bad enough where I've had to log off and it puts me in a bad mood for hours to think there is so much hostility out there.Add to that, the terms of usage agreements of all major online games have NO provision for gender-based discrimination. Not just women, either: you will never see the word "fag" used so loosely in so many ways as you do in an MMO. I can't chalk it ALL up to hormone loaded 12 year olds, either...

**some, not all techies obviously...but it's prevalent enough for me to be able to state a generalization.