• Slayer 🦊@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    You could go gay. That would open up a lot of back doors

    Shitty jokes aside. I’m actually surprised the projector says 2020. There were quite a few girls in my class in 2019

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      Tbh I’m not supprised I graduated in 2015 with a networking degree and there were 3 girls in my class group (3 or 4 courses with a lot of the same classes) which was about 150-200 students.

      Conversely the nursing classes that were in the same building those numbers were flipped

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      I am gay and have a master’s in computer science. Believe me, there wasn’t much for me in class either.

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        If they were just odd they’d have a lot more success because you kind of have to be odd to be good at CS.

        It’s more the rapey, incely, tendency to see women as a different and incoherent species that has the women in CS either walking around with their hackles raised all the time or quietly slipping out the back door.

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      It was like this in my CS department a decade ago, too. There was me, one other gal, and for a while a German exchange student who wanted nothing to do with either of us in the entire grad program. I learned to talk a lot louder over the course of that program.

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    Girls don’t wanna work in CS because CS boys always be treating the class like a hookup scene. And it’s not every boy, but if there’s 2 girls and 20 boys in the class, and 10% of the boys are being creeps, then you’ve already got a problem.

    Parents have gotta stop teaching their sons to see class as a dating opportunity. On campus, sure, but not in the classroom.

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    You realize there are other departments, right? The archaeology and art history students are just as nerdy and horny.

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    I work on software that you’re probably using right now, and my company is like 60% women. It’s wonderful. We spend a lot of our (very few) meetings talking about our feelings, discussing hair and skincare, and gossiping about each other’s love lives. The inter-team drama sometimes gets pretty funny though. We’ve been in a passive-aggressive fued with another team since some time last year.

    It’s also extremely gay. Everyone always says they love working with me, but all i do is go around flirting with my work crushes and having fun.