{"id":462,"date":"2006-04-19T07:31:44","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T14:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/c8bf3f505892bad3e8d3ce7f803853f7"},"modified":"2006-04-19T07:31:44","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T14:31:44","slug":"sexism-in-the-geek-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Sexism in the Geek World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annalee Newitz is a journalist.  Unfortunately, Annalee is also a woman, and that unfortunately makes her a target for sexist and misogynistic comments from a number of the Slashdot (and other) readers.   The summary of the story is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsploitation.com\/2006\/04\/12\/the-trouble-with-slashdot\/\"> with a more detailed piece responding to the <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/04\/02\/1730229\">offending article that started it all<\/a> available where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/34819\/\">Annalee talks about the issues and the idiots<\/a>.  Because of the way Slashdot works, even the opening description and summary of the article was sexist.<\/p>\n\n<!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/2302\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/2302\" dc:title=\"Sexism in the Geek World\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/2302\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n-->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=jG4h5i\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=jG4h5i\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=140\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annalee Newitz is a journalist.  Unfortunately, Annalee is also a woman, and that unfortunately makes her a target for sexist and misogynistic comments from a number of the Slashdot (and other) readers.   The summary of the story is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsploitation.com\/2006\/04\/12\/the-trouble-with-slashdot\/\"> with a more detailed piece responding to the <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/04\/02\/1730229\">offending article that started it all<\/a> available where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/34819\/\">Annalee talks about the issues and the idiots<\/a>.  Because of the way Slashdot works, even the opening description and summary of the article was sexist.<\/p>\n<p><!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/2302\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/2302\" dc:title=\"Sexism in the Geek World\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/2302\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=jG4h5i\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=jG4h5i\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=140\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}