Being a girl does not make me stupid....

[dragon_wings]

Our head technician is a woman. A pretty ballsy lesbian, too. You definitely don't want to piss her off. And she's a camera enthusiast... she probably would have had the exact same conversation with the Best Buy guy, except it would have ended with her foot in his ass.

Fortunately I don't think we've ever dealt with a customer dumb enough to discount her technical abilities simply because she happens to be a woman. If they do, though... I predict much pain. For them.

I'll get the popcorn.

[Kogarashi]

I wonder how many of the salespeople in stories like this would be completely thrown by the fact that I built my own computer, and regularly replace parts that go on me with little to no outside input. I know more about a computer's innards than my husband does.

[Gizmo]

It made me SO mad that he:
1) Went to my male friend first, despite the fact that he was clearly not looking at cameras and I was.
2) Talked to my male friend like a good buddy and talked to me like I was a stupid, pesky little kid.
3) Told me, to my face, that he didn't expect me to know anything because I have boobs, curves and a second "x" chromosome.

I'm totally going to threadjack here:

When i went to a sci fi event several years ago I was sitting behind a table during the disco. A star guest came up to us and asked us how we where going to get out from behind there for the convention dances "especially with that" *puts hand on and down into my cleavage fully*.

I'm totally in shock and don't really know what to do since I'm sure decking the star guest would get me in so much trouble. Said star guest turns to my boyfriend and apologises to him (who hadn't even noticed at all.).

Back on topic: I've also had the "female knows nothing" from store employees.. especially when shopping for laptops. Since I kill about 1 every 18 months it gets old fast! And any sales person offering me a pink item would need surgery after I got through with them.

[dragon_wings]

I'm totally going to threadjack here:
And any sales person offering me a pink item would need surgery after I got through with them.

Pink is icky. Lol.

[Cazzi]

I also build my own PCs & have enough bits & bobs to build several low powered ones knocking about the house.
I also built & maintain my very OTT home network... 3 subnets & 2 ISPs

All I need now is for the layer 3 switch I was promised to materialise.. then I can redo my network & get rid of some of the flashy boxes cluttering up the place!

And yes, I get talked over when it comes to techy stuff too in stortes

And I like pink! My Kindle cover is bright pink & I'm not afraid to get it out in public

[shadowpanda]

I won't buy things if they are pink, I'm kind if against it. I don't care if people like that colour, each to their own. Though I do have friends who will buy stuff just because it is a pink. They have bought fairly cheap things, like earrings, pens/other stationary, but they have also bought laptops, digital cameras and an extra pair of shoes or a handbag just so they had one in pink!

grrrr to stereotypes. Sometimes. I love my friends but some times they drive me crazy

[mharbourgirl]

I won't buy things if they are pink, I'm kind if against it. I don't care if people like that colour, each to their own. Though I do have friends who will buy stuff just because it is a pink. They have bought fairly cheap things, like earrings, pens/other stationary, but they have also bought laptops, digital cameras and an extra pair of shoes or a handbag just so they had one in pink!

grrrr to stereotypes. Sometimes. I love my friends but some times they drive me crazy

You can hang out with me. I have a pathological resistance to pink things simply because they're PINK, and I have refused to cater to the stereotype since I was old enough to dress myself. Girls wore pink and played with dolls. My dolls gathered dust and I played with my brothers' dinky cars. When I wasn't reading National Geographic or watching NOVA, that is. I was a terrible disappointment to my mother who REALLY wanted a girly girl she could dress up and do girl things with.

I only make two exceptions: Breast Cancer things, and Hart Foundation stuff. Anything else, I'll light it on fire before I employ it as part of my look.

[tropicsgoddess]

Another tech-savvy woman here.

I'm a fellow tech savvy woman! I'm my parents' tech support. It burns me up whenever "men" assume that we women don't know jack about technology. Sorry BOYS but having different parts from you doesn't mean we're technologically challenged!

[fma_fanatic]

Geeky tech savvy girl here too. I helped the husband buy his computer last night. It was ultimately up to him, I just gave him suggestions on what I knew was good and what wasn't.

I've sort of felt the "you can't know what you think you know" looks. Even our IT guy is impressed with what I know and that I'll ask for help if I'm stumped.

[Mr Hero]

Dude you're into the boobs today aren't you

I'm into boobs every day.

[dalesys]

I was just about to say the same thing, someone has a one track two rack mind today.

Just thinking with one head...

[Racket_Man]

I wander how Mr Dork-oo sales guy would react to my HS girlfriend. she was into computers back 35 years ago during the the IBM mainframe era. not sure what she does these days but I bet she could out-Dilbert the dumbass sales dork

[Merriweather]

Another tech-savvy woman here.

And me. Been working with computers for longer than most of the clerks in Best Buy have been alive I have boobs and wrinkles, too, and somehow manage to have a clue about computers, digital cameras and all sorts of modern wonders - amazing, huh?

[LadyAndreca]

You can hang out with me. I have a pathological resistance to pink things simply because they're PINK, and I have refused to cater to the stereotype since I was old enough to dress myself. Girls wore pink and played with dolls. My dolls gathered dust and I played with my brothers' dinky cars. When I wasn't reading National Geographic or watching NOVA, that is. I was a terrible disappointment to my mother who REALLY wanted a girly girl she could dress up and do girl things with.

I only make two exceptions: Breast Cancer things, and Hart Foundation stuff. Anything else, I'll light it on fire before I employ it as part of my look.

And me. When I was a baby, my parents always dressed me in yellows and greens because they hadn't known whether they were having a boy or girl so got gender-neutral colors. When my sister got old enough and tall enough it was hard to tell our ages apart, our relatives thought it was cute to dress us like twins, with me in pink and her in blue. I ended up pitching a MAJOR fit, refusing to EVER wear pink (between the ages of about 7 and 25, I can think of -one- pink outfit I wore, for a family reunion photo, and yes, my sister had a matching blue one). I told all my relatives my favorite color was purple JUST so they'd stop sending me pink stuff. (I liked blue, but that was my sister's color so they wouldn't send me blue stuff.)

What really sucks is that I look good in pink, but I have a deep and long-running hatred of it. As soon as I could start buying my own clothes, I was buying all blues and grays for myself. I was 25 before I even started getting other colors into my wardrobe...which eventually did include one 'dusty rose' sweater that my relatives are NOT allowed to see me wearing.

[ArcticChicken]

Also- I love the word whom. And Lest. They are good words

Very good words, I'm quite fond of them.

Though I do have friends who will buy stuff just because it is a pink.

I have to admit I have had to be talked down a couple times from buying something just because it's bright cherry red.