She said that in the context of "There is nothing masculine/male about CS ..." and since gender was the subject of the dscussion you don't need a huge leap of faith to accept the comment as sexist.
As to the broom work, yes it's suitable t there, although not the subject of the post...
So why is it sexist to say "there is nothing masculine about CS"? If you say the opposite, surely it would be sexist, because it would imply that women are not made for CS. But saying "CS is not masculine" seems not sexist to me. Except that the whole question is rather uninteresting ("masculine" or not - who cares?).
Yes but there are major differences:
- In college you're not interacting only through the Internet
- Even though you might be popular, you're not going to have that many guys asking you out.
- But the main thing is at work, or when practicing your hobby, you're not expecting to be bugged very often by people probing for a relationship...
Not quite. You're socializing (including taking on new hobbies) to meet new people, yes. But you're not passioned by your hobby (say History or computers) because you want to socialize ... And if you're into say long distance running that's not to have all the guys -who otherwise might have run faster- start slowing down just to look at your butt ...
At both places I worked that had women (admittedly, both colleges), women were asked out. I'm told it's not uncommon at regular jobs either. What fraction of nurses (an 80-90% women profession) are asked out, do you think?
As far as I know, women are asked out at many hobby activities as well. I know people who have gotten dates at critical mass, rowing, the gym and some sort of "Free Palestine" club. I'm told that even church is not an unreasonable place.
This "men asking out women" problem seems quite pervasive.
Very good point.
But it's not completely ludicrous either.
The "sponsored by" usually means that the developer is actually employed by the company (hence the sponsor) and that he contributed in this capacity (i.e. ebing paid working on BSD for instance).
However the code itself often amounts to patches and the company itself (Apple in this article) has chosen not to condemn officially FreeBSD by making a direct financial donation to the foundation.
As to the broom work, yes it's suitable t there, although not the subject of the post...