[30460] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [OT] Valley of the Boyz
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey C. Ollie)
Mon Aug 7 11:39:30 2000
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:33:16 -0500
From: "Jeffrey C. Ollie" <jeff@ollie.clive.ia.us>
To: Sheryl Chapin <schapin@ctel.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 10:26:33AM -0400, Sheryl Chapin wrote:
>
> Ummm, I think you guys are missing the point. The point is that guys live,
> breath and eat this stuff, but to most women, it's just a job.
>
> [...]
>
> Personally, I always thought it was just me, but maybe it is a gender
> thing. Is that bad? I really don't know.
I think that you are trying to generalize from a rather limited
experience with computer professionals. Take me, for instance. In
some ways I'm very much like the people that you describe. I enjoy
spending hours and hours tinkering with the computers and networks at
work and home. I've even had dreams about my networks.
Yet I enjoy talking with my co-workers about a variety of non-computer
subjects like politics, movies, TV, music, home repair, kids, family,
etc. But then I don't live in Silicon Valley or New York (I live in
the Midwest) and I don't work for a .com or other high-tech firm (I
work for a community college).
So we are out there...
Jeff
