You cannot help me because you're a woman!

[Shironu-Akaineko]

I guess I am a mish mash of anti-stereotypes, I am a girl, I love computer and video games, I play pen and paper RPGs, I like some sports, i love Star Wars, Stargate, and other somewhat nerdy shows. I pretty much never wear make-up or jewelry though I keep my hair really long. I guess I am an odd duck too lol.

I love you and I'm gonna get a sex change just to marry you.

[Bluenomi]

I guess I am a mish mash of anti-stereotypes, I am a girl, I love computer and video games, I play pen and paper RPGs, I like some sports, i love Star Wars, Stargate, and other somewhat nerdy shows. I pretty much never wear make-up or jewelry though I keep my hair really long. I guess I am an odd duck too lol.

You sound like me. I'm the nerd with my Star Wars and Stargate DVDs who got all excited when Foxtel started having the Sci Fi channel. I have a DS, PS2 and a PC that I bought just to play games on. Confuses some guys

[aurelemsrealm]

I guess I am a mish mash of anti-stereotypes, I am a girl, I love computer and video games, I play pen and paper RPGs, I like some sports, i love Star Wars, Stargate, and other somewhat nerdy shows. I pretty much never wear make-up or jewelry though I keep my hair really long. I guess I am an odd duck too lol.

You sound somewhat like my wife. She tends to be a bit tomboyish most of the time, but can be girly when she wants to be. She works as a geologist for our state, and monitors underground fuel storage tanks at convenience stores and gas stations. She has a master's degree in geology, and loves to play in the dirt. She loves computer and video games. She doesn't play pen and paper RPGs or anything like that, but she likes card games, sudoku and word puzzles, board games, and things like that. She likes the same nerdy shows that I like. The only sport she watches are the Kentucky Derby horse races. She wears little make-up or jewelry, but will wear a few favorite rings and necklaces or paint her nails when she wants. She prefers to keep her hair short because it's extremely thick, but she'll grow it out to almost shoulder-length because I like long hair better than short hair on women.

[pacman]

Thanks. They sound like people worth to know. I'll store those names somewhere.

Here it seems that those ball games are not as popular as in the US. Almost none of my male friends (also fiancé) likes watching it, to the point that if they get a free ticket to a game, they give it away.

Pyxee, I love computers, not so much video games, but almost never wear makeup or jewelry except engagement ring (it's a common practice here, as you get engaged you have one ring and when you marry the wife gets another). My hair is long (it was short 2½ years ago).

[Gabrielle Proctor]

I had a college professor whose name is "Tommy LaShanda". Yep, her first and middle names are not typical of the average white woman. She has been denied jobs because employers thought she was black when they read her application. She has been sent notices about joining the Army because the government thought she was a man.

[pyxee]

I guess I am a mish mash of anti-stereotypes, I am a girl, I love computer and video games, I play pen and paper RPGs, I like some sports, i love Star Wars, Stargate, and other somewhat nerdy shows. I pretty much never wear make-up or jewelry though I keep my hair really long. I guess I am an odd duck too lol.

[greensinestro]

Slightly OT, but stereotypes can be such a funny thing. I'm one of the few men in America who hates sports. If I'm going to watch TV, I'd much rather watch a good movie or some kind of documentary on Discovery Channel, Food Network, or National Geographic if I can't find one of my shows (Star Trek, Stargate, The Simpsons, Family Guy, stuff along those lines). If I'm going to listen to the radio, I want music, but I'd rather listen to talk radio than a ball game.

Everyone seems surprised when I mention that I don't like sports, and don't follow the ballgames that all the other guys are watching. On ball game nights, everyone will come in to the store asking if I know scores or stats. Nope! I could care less. The only reason I know there is a game is because everyone else is talking about it, and that's all anyone wants to talk about.

That's amazing, because I myself am not a big sports fan. I will occasionally watch a football game or two, if it's worth watching, but I also am not into stats, scores, betting, etc. I also like movies, good TV shows, hell, even reruns of "Match Game" on GSN.

[aurelemsrealm]

Slightly OT, but stereotypes can be such a funny thing. I'm one of the few men in America who hates sports. If I'm going to watch TV, I'd much rather watch a good movie or some kind of documentary on Discovery Channel, Food Network, or National Geographic if I can't find one of my shows (Star Trek, Stargate, The Simpsons, Family Guy, stuff along those lines). If I'm going to listen to the radio, I want music, but I'd rather listen to talk radio than a ball game.

Everyone seems surprised when I mention that I don't like sports, and don't follow the ballgames that all the other guys are watching. On ball game nights, everyone will come in to the store asking if I know scores or stats. Nope! I could care less. The only reason I know there is a game is because everyone else is talking about it, and that's all anyone wants to talk about.

[sms001]

Grace Hopper Ada Lovelace Radia Perlman

Radia! I knew I had it wrong but couldn't cough up in time that day - too much Real Life™. And thanks for answering pacman for me. Hopper and Lovelace are probably better known, but I always think of Perlman as the reason things don't go "bump" on the net To paraphrase Jules Winnfield: "Lookit the big brain on Radia!"

BTW pacman, don't feel stupid - it IS a pretty male centric culture. I just like to hope that some of us can appreciate the hacker ethos no matter what package it comes in.

[ThePhoneGoddess]

Erm... I feel very stupid now. I know who is Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds and such people, but have not the faintest idea of who are the ladies you just listed. Please educate me.

Grace Hopper was a computer scientist and United States Navy officer. She developed the first compiler for a computer programming language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

Ada Lovelace was the daughter of Lord Byron (yes, the poet). She was interested in mathematics and translated Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea's memoir on Babbage's newest proposed machine, the Analytical Engine. Had the Analytical Engine ever actually been built, her program would have been able to calculate a sequence of Bernoulli numbers. Based on this work, Lovelace is now widely credited with being the first computer programmer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

Radia Perlman is a software designer and network engineer sometimes referred to as the 'Mother of the Internet'. She is most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol, while working for Digital Equipment Corp, which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman




Yeah, I'm a know it all. So sue me.

[Rine]

Hell, I get this kind of crap all the time from jerks who come into the tool department. I know a lot about the department and there are things I don't know because I haven't had formal training in that department.

The one thing I don't get is when men won't talk to me to ask a question about where an item is in the department! I would say about 75% of the time the salesguy would come back to me to ask me where the item is. I know that department like the back of my hand. I merchandise it, I price it, and I sign it. You tell me the features of a major item and nine times out of ten I can give you the correct stock number off the top of my head.

Some of the salesmen used to treat me the same way that some customers did, but that stopped when the new ASM of HI was a woman who know more about tools than they did.

[Slow-Jo]

ha! the computer store me and my b/f go 2 to get parts has a women that works there. shes knows more about what we are talking about then the men!!!

[XCashier]

The worst, however, was a WOMAN who said I couldn't help her because I was a woman.

The only thing worse than a male chauvinist is a female male chauvinist! Yeah, thanks for perpetuating the stereotype!

[pacman]

Erm... I feel very stupid now. I know who is Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds and such people, but have not the faintest idea of who are the ladies you just listed. Please educate me.

I suppose that tells something about me...

[sms001]

The OP should tell the customer about Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper...

You'd think names like Ada Lovelace, Rada(?) Perlman, and and Grace Hopper (saw her on Johnny Carson one night - she's very cool - carried around a "nanosecond" stick) would be FAR more widely recognized than, oh, Steve Ballmer