That’s because COBOL and FORTRAN were kind of gay.
Posted on 03/20/2015 3:26:16 PM PDT by Olog-hai
93.8 percent of the adults polled in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward metropolitan area do not “personally identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender,” according to a Gallup survey that interviewed 374,325 adults nationwide from June through December of last year. […]
The San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan area—commonly known as Silicon Valley—ranked fourth from the bottom among the 50 largest metropolitan areas for its percentage of LGBTs. 96.8 percent in that metro area do not personally identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to the Gallup survey, and 3.2 percent do. …
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As they can’t procreate, they most likely died off - or decided to no longer identify themselves as “gay.”
Well, there goes that claim that 10% of the country is gay or something other than normal.
bkmk
“There are not many gays in modern IT. There used to be more back in the mainframe days. I don’t know why.”
That’s because COBOL and FORTRAN were kind of gay.
Not all gays started out that way.
A lot of them got sucked into it...
“Followup question: Why does 3-6% of the population get to redefine marriage?”
Because the people that should be defending marriage have given up. They are sick of the bickering and don’t have enough BACKBONE to keep up the fight.
...as our churches continue to empty.
Even at 6% they dominate
3-6% on the high end
Yet they have a lesbian mayor
That’s because COBOL and FORTRAN were kind of gay.
The CDC deep-sixed that one in 2011.
and the valley is moving north and pushing the locals out of San Fran. The “Artists” can’t afford to live there anymore.
3.6%? A government survey said the number was 2.3%.
A small percentage of the ITs have usually been homosexual. The homosexual ones usually get plenty of press attention. It’s similar to how much attention they get on TV, which is more than a proportional amount of “token” homosexual TV characters. In reality, it’s probably close to 2 percent nationwide.
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