Geeks and sexism
Guardian CIF has a blog piece by AlterNet contributor Deanna Zandt about how geek culture is still very male-centred – notably how a woman who made it onto the tech discussion website Slashdot found that some of the denizens found it more useful to discuss her looks than what she was doing. As a regular reader of the tech press, it has to be said that the community is rather male dominated, but it’s also true that women and girls are just much less interested in becoming geeks than men and boys. You might see my comment on the below article, which is the second one down at present:
