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My own experience is that geekdom is better than the rest of the world.
After you prove yourself a competent and technical person, there is little
to no discrimination/sexism, at least from the geeks.
However, I have seen non-technical or non-competent writers (and manager and
others) eaten alive by the geeks. Like a feeding frenzy. It happens
regardless of the sex of the non-technical person. Unfortunately, I have
been guilty of this behavior as well. Not something I like when I see myself
doing it, but I am also a geek. It is part of our culture to dislike people
who are not what they represent themselves to be. Geeks hate being misled -
it feels like lying and in my experience, we geeks do not tolerate that from
anyone.
Need to wake up. More coffee.
sharon
Sharon Burton-Hardin
Anthrobytes Consulting
909-369-8590
www.anthrobytes.com
Vice-president, Programs of the Inland Empire chapter of the STC
www.iestc.org
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From: "Bruce Byfield" <bbyfield -at- progeny -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
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Sent: Saturday, 21 April, 2001 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: Gender Issues in Technical Communication
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| But what I'm curious about is this: is sexism greater or less in tech
| writing than anywhere else? And, as a sub-question, are the geeks whose
| work you interpret for everyone else more or less sexist than the norm?
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| With geeks, the perspective is more subjective; I can only suggest that,
| being a meritocracy, geekdom might occasionally try to live up its
| ideals and accept anyone who is proven competent.
|
| Still, I don't know first hand. Any thoughts?
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