>A new study shows how Star Trek jokes and geek culture make women feel unwelcome in computer science
>As a high school sophomore in the 1990s, I took a mandatory computer science class that had a reputation for being difficult. The word among girls was that the only students who did well in the course were the “Dungeons & Dragons boys.”
>A very nice teacher taught the class. But he often reinforced this male-oriented image of who could be successful with nerdy Star Trek jokes and other pop-culture references more likely to resonate with boys than girls. Unsurprisingly, boys dominated classroom interactions, answered questions confidently and turned in their tests quickly. Many of those boys went onto become computer scientists and engineers—while girls largely turned to fields like social sciences, medicine and business.
>A recent psychological study I conducted with my colleagues, published this month in the Psychological Bulletin, has a clear message about our best hope for diversifying computer science. To draw more girls into STEM fields, it’s not enough to provide more learning opportunities. The cultures in these fields need to change to communicate to girls that they belong in them just as much as boys do.
Maybe it's time we tell our young sons/brothers/nephews to cut out the geek stuff with in computer class at school so that the girls will feel more included.
It's a very real problem that needs to be dealt with.
Thomas Barnes
Oh NOW they don't want to be "le geeky girl XP"
Andrew Sullivan
is that supposed to be cute or something? desu she'd be alright if it wasn't for the hair
Matthew Thomas
Well then you are not an IT professional you stupid cunt.
Brayden Gonzalez
>nerd shit attracts nerd people >women try to be pretend nerds by doing nerdshit >mad they don't succeed because they aren't real nerds
You can just generalize this actually: >X shit attracts X people >women try to be pretend Xs by doing Xshit >mad they don't succeed because they aren't real Xs so they complain Xs are being mysogynist. Replace with X with pretty much anything women get their grubby little fingers on.
Ryder Anderson
>It's a "I feel unwelcome due to my own internal problems, so the entire world should change so that I can feel welcome" episode
Anthony Johnson
>we just want an equal chance to succeed >now pander to us and change everything about everything
Juan Roberts
so let me get this straight
Women want to get into nerd spaces but only if the nerds stop being nerds?
I will never understand how people can be straight
Jackson Wilson
No "it" does not need to be dealt with, fuck off.
Matthew Robinson
you can literally be a 4/10 goblin with broad shoulders, a deformed head and no hips and males will still line up just to eat your shit
Jaxson Martin
>I'm a statistical outlier but everything should conform to me
The female sex in a nutshell.
Levi Green
What the fuck is wrong with her ass? It's got fur on it.
Dylan Davis
Not an argument.
Thomas Foster
>feels unwelcome >forces others to change
Why do people out there believe that people give a fuck how a random stranger feels? I don't like hanging out with nerds so I don't.
Jacob Jackson
>I don't want to integrate into this culture I chose, they need to stop having that culture now that I've wedged myself into their population. These "women" are no better than beaners or goatfucking muslims.
James Gutierrez
Jesus Christ could non-normies be anymore besieged in the modern day? We already don't get women, or have many friends, or get respect from our peers, now you want to take away our culture as well? Fuck off women.
John Ortiz
Who's the chick in the webm familia?
Isaiah Flores
this
Evan Cox
stop making these threads women are not welcome in science because they are dumb whores sage
Christopher Carter
Holy shit that's one of the most butt-ugly women I've ever seen.
Christian Bennett
I never gave a SHIT about star trek and I went into computer science
girlfags in RUINS
Jace Miller
Censor your literally not offensive language to appease vagina in your school in which they are already get better treatment than you especially in nerdy kinda stuff. Yeah how about no your feelings that get hurt by !non offensive speech! can fuck off.
Caleb Cooper
Wait, but I thought that girls were into nerdy shit. At least on the surface. Just google, "girl" + any of the following: "zelda" "nintendo" "Star Wars" "Geeky" "Video gamer / gamer" and you will find hordes of attention whores taking pictures and acting all "nerdy".
Ryder Perry
>All that white hair on her ass
Jose Green
Sauce please.
Ethan Ortiz
Another professional IT I've just looked Star trek 1 and was like Jews in the space.
Grayson Anderson
>tfw those same nerds have felt unwelcome in nearly everything they've ever tried to be a part of
Oh, this poor girl can't be a part of a nerdy subculture! They should change!
Those damn nerds who aren't welcome into any subculture except the one they are forced into need to be more welcoming and willing to give up their one and only safe haven so that a few women can feel safer.
Hudson Baker
>hairy ass You have shit taste in women OP
Brayden Long
Why is society slowly but surely trying to destroy men and the world they built?
Samuel Young
You forgot pokemon.
Juan Myers
Colleges shower women in scholarships if they major in computer science Drown them in resources to help them along Not to mention neckbeard virgins tripping over themselves to do all the work for girls in an attempt to get their pee pee touched
Women still don't want to major in computer science We're obviously not doing enough for women
Jack Scott
mulatos are fuckign disgusting
Nathaniel Harris
That's just the Ferengi.
Ryder Mitchell
can we just give every girl in the country a personal cheerleader that will be with them 24/7 telling them "YOU CAN DO IT". i feel like they wont be satisfied until every single thing they do is encouraged, praised, and fully recognized.
Jaxon Martinez
NO. They feel unwelcome because of the unwelcoming male atmosphere.
Imagine being a woman who just earned her CS degree and was hired to work as a developer at a game company, and on the first day you come on the job, you come into the playtest area of the game you'll be working on and see this.
Evan Cooper
so true.
now all these things come out about
>WHY DO YOU MALES JUST WANNA PLAY VIDYA GAMES ALL DAY?
Cause we want to get away from you cunts. This is something we enjoy and, most of you, won't understand because you aren't us.
>VIDYA GAMES ARE SEXIST
by that logic female dominated activities are sexist as well.
Ian Foster
"I didn't watch the show so I don't get the joke. I also don't want to watch the show, so just don't make jokes about it." AHHHHHHHHHHH PATRIARCHY!
Zachary Ramirez
>>A new study shows how Star Trek jokes and geek culture make women feel unwelcome in computer science
LOL BAZINGA STAR WARS AND COMICS XDDD
Luis Ross
Hacker news/ycombinator funded a study to see if the whole "woman in STEM" meme was real.
Turns out the majority of female STEM students quit right around age 26-33 and don't return. No surprise here, they used their credentials to date top tier men in the field, and popped babies never needing to work again.
Juan Parker
Computer science, advanced AI and mechanical engineering will make women great again
Levi Rivera
>I'm a dumb woman and I feel unwelcome in a field I don't have a shed of interest in. This must be men's fault Shit like this keeps me away from the dating game. Whatever I do, I'll lose
Dylan Bennett
>women have shunned nerds for their entire lives >get mad when those nerds turn to virtual girls because they can only accept them
Is it because the only control you had over them was your vagina, and now they don't care?
Jeremiah Anderson
>Girls make up offensive stereotypes to make fun of smart kids
>Offensive stereotypes prevent girls from being smart
>smart kids are oppressing women.
Nathan Hill
hey guys, just posting an anecdote you may find interesting
i'm an undergrad in the field of computer science/engineering. worked at Google last summer. my boss was a woman (and also muslim) who was a great software engineer, incredibly well respected by the team. learned as much from her in three months as i did from any of my classes
never once did i hear any disparaging remarks nor witness discrimination - but of course, being a white guy, i'm not exactly looking out for that stuff.
anyway, just wanted to share an anecdote about how the tech industry isn't always the sexist hell that the media makes it out to be
Ryan King
I know you're trolling but jesus fucking christ ...
> Shockingly, a full 60 percent of the women said they had dealt with unwanted sexual advances from a coworker.
>According to a survey of over 2,000 women by Cosmo last year, about one in three women report experiencing workplace harassment overall.
Oh hey, lets compare sexual advances (ie. someone hitting on them) with actual harassment. That's not completely retarded bullshit.
Isaac Martinez
I like your style user
Henry Wilson
>>A new study shows how Star Trek jokes and geek culture make women feel unwelcome in computer science
Wheres the study that shows how women talking about stupid fucking bullshit like shoes and shopping makes men feel unwelcome literally everywhere on earth
Fuck these people are fucking useless
Day of the rope when?
Daniel Young
>suck my hairy tribbles quick, make as many star trek jokes
Gavin Adams
I would baste her asshole with my tongue sauce
Xavier Garcia
...
Thomas Torres
What did she mean by this?
Blake Moore
...
Kayden James
>the culture needs to change They aren't even hiding it.
Colton Peterson
Forget shoes and shopping, I don't give a fuck about that. The bigger problem is that they gossip about each other and stir the shit all goddamn day.
Brayden Butler
>SEXIST STAR TREK OF ALL THINGS i'd like to play dom-jot on their irregular bodies and sink my terik into their holes, if you catch my drift
Angel Reyes
What did she mean by this?
Eli Evans
Mirab, with sails unfurled!
Andrew Cox
...
Adam Collins
This.
Even girls that seem alright will gossip non fucking stop. I've never talked bad about a friend behind his back. Why are girls so fucking evil?
Cooper Lopez
So basically, these " dungeons and dragons boys" are a problem for not showering her with attention the way other college guys do, and rather than changing to be more accepting of their hobbies, OR JUST SHUTTING THE FUCK UP and focusing on your studies because this is school and not a daycare, they all need to change to fit her needs?
Christian Powell
>heyy Pennie what day is today? >dunno Shaldon, May the 4th? >don't you mean May the 4th be with you!??!
BASPONGAS
Connor Young
I have spent the past week and a half at a series of conferences where 90% of the discussions have been about this shit.
Every. Single. Advocate. Has either been a landwhale or had brightly dyed hair, or both.
I actually want more women in the particular field I'm in, but I cannot deal with them talking about the most infantile and inconsequential shit that means and does literally nothing if addressed.
Aaron King
They should all be hauled off to the mechanical breeding grounds and thoroughly probed to find out what's wrong with them
Oliver Russell
>be girl in CS course >have a problem coding one of the modules >5 fat losers immediately offer assistance >BUT I FEEL SOOO UNWELCOME
if your a chick in some STEM bullshit it's literally the most welcoming environment. notice how the article says she FELT unwelcome because she didnt like the same things they did. so fucking what? go to an all-girls school then if you cant perform alongside men.
Cameron Nelson
Literally a hairy situation
Alexander Ortiz
Fuck women
Zachary Anderson
>can we just give every girl in the country a personal cheerleader that will be with them 24/7 telling them "YOU CAN DO IT".
This is that "Well, why don't we make it $100 then!?" bullshit mentality that people have whenever discussion arises on whether or not we should raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
It's not that complicated. All you need to do is make sure the computer classes are more nurturing of female students by cutting down the on toxic male masculinity.
Landon Young
rly makes u think
Christopher Butler
They make SJWs looking for a problem feel great, it gives them something to whine about. Otherwise, they would grow bored and die.
Save an SJW, watch Star Trek and play D&D.
Henry Garcia
>I feel unwelcome because I avoid popular culture >why can't they make GoT jokes? >why can't they make Kardashian references? >why can't they make nonjudgmental period emotional support extra credit? >why can't they cater to my very specific and limited needs typical woman
>I'm not like other girls
Aaron Sanders
>want to be scientist >propose anecdotal evidence >not looking at data about interests >not understanding that in 3rd world countries MORE women are involved in technical fields >not realizing most women want to work with people >not realizing most nerds are great with computers because they have zero other skills and value to society >wanting other people to change so you can compete better >thinking that because you don't get star trek jokes you can't learn how to program >conflating social acceptance with ability >letting your emotions discourage you from working >thinking companies aren't falling over themselves to hire competent female engineers and scientists >talking about star trek is exclusionary
Brayden Murphy
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Luis Nelson
What is an unwanted sexual advance ? If they like the man, its not unwanted ? If you don't do anything they label you as a beta.
>Studies show the non-members of cultures feel estranged from alien cultures because of different customs in foreign cultures Thanks. I'm glad someone is paying you for this quality discovery.
Owen Scott
every single one of your posts are b8
Matthew Kelly
This man is playing a level above us all
Landon Williams
>tfw my stepmom does this almost exactly
I feel so bad for my dad, but he put himself in the situation. She once took a picture of her bird looking at her, posted it to facebook, and captioned it "The bird must be jealous of my super expensive laptop"
My mom is alright though, so not all women are shit.
Tyler Mitchell
>That hair on her ass
Ayden Green
are they going to add makeup and sucking black cock to the curriculum too
also what the fuck this captcha took me 20 tries fuck
Leo Wilson
>we need to purge all the boy clubs! this will never work. Men are supposed to leave women temporarily and form groups with other men to go hunting. That's literally a biological imperative
The men will just find another refuge.
Bentley Brown
>be above average male CS student about to graduate and face a tough job search >the girl who I have had to handhold in group projects often for the past 3 years got an invite to fly to Apple in California for a job interview
