[decimon]

The one-armed bandits of the computer lab don't need girls.

[dfwgator]

A far cry from the early days when I had three hot chicas from Mexico as coders on my team.

[jimfree]

The tone of this article suggests that we need to add some pink Barbie playsets to the science fiction memorabilia. Are the women on FR as insulted as I am?

[sportutegrl]

I’ve never read such a stereotype laden article in my life. The ‘scientists’ conducting the experiment came with preconcieved notions straight from tv sitcom land. My hubby is a programmer and I think he is sexy. He is also an artist and a woodworker. I am an engineer and neither of us fit the ‘geeky’ stereotype, or female stereotype. (The authors also had some preconcieved notions about what women like.)

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

My SIL teaches aerodynamics at a well-known university, and has spent her entire professional life in a mostly male environment full of “geeks.” But she is unusual — first, she has a naturally aggressive personality, so I don’t think anyone or anything has ever intimidated her! :) More important, her dad was an engineer and encouraged her strongly to become one too. If more dads encouraged their daughters in the sciences, we’d see more women in the sciences. But most dads don’t do that.

[Ted Grant]

Geeks drive pretty girls to the airport at 3:00am on freezing rainy nights while the girls’ boyfriends are at home, asleep.

[RedStateDefender]

I don’t doubt that the geek atmosphere is a turnoff for some women. Should PC social engineers step in to fix this? Yea, as soon as they drive the dominant gay culture out of the drama department, the over-achiever culture out of biological sciences, the jock atmosphere out of the PhysEd, etc., etc. One thing you gotta say about these Computer Science geeks...they can write code! Maybe that is something not to mess with for the sake of diversity.

[The Comedian]

We don't need real girls anyway...

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[meadsjn]

Women in Computer Science were never the problem. I've never met a female Computer Scientist that was any less qualified than their male Computer Scientist peers.

The problem in IT was created in the late 1980s and 1990s when women with EDU and SOC degrees, or no degree at all, invaded the IT world at the management levels using affirmative action mandates, and destroyed any credibility remaining in the management, systems, and project processes.

[steve-b]