So much of our technologies have been built or adapted to enhance and/or fulfil our desires, including sexual desires, it is puzzling to me why you think women are somehow excluded from this. Your post smacks of a modern puritanism.
It's a question of venue. There's nothing wrong with the tech itself. Don't bring this up on HN. We have enough trouble fighting the stereotype of the misogynistic porn watching computer nerd as it is. Women are overwhelmingly offended by pornography (particularly hentai, which is very commonly focused on incest and pedophilia), and especially in a setting that is supposedly professional. Of course there are always exceptions to any rule. It just really bothers me to see the casual locker room conversation here that is so toxic to having an inclusive community.
What? Why? This is interesting. As a woman the only thing that offends me in "tech" is people who don't treat me as a person, but rather as a "woman in tech." I am person. I am just as good as you. I don't need some strong man to protect me from the big, scary world of the impolite hentai-masturbating nerds. Throwaway since I want to tell you to go fuck yourself. Yes, even women know those words, thank you very much.
We are absolutely incredibly offended by porn. So thank you for speaking out to protect us women! I see that another woman has already told you to fuck off, so I’ll spare you that.
This can be changed- it's merely cultural, right?
Bigots of either sex need to get over pornophobia for culture to progress.
Nope. But what is the breakdown, 70/30 at best? There's nothing wrong with watching porn. It's just that having a casual "frat house" culture like this where people feel fine sharing these things in a supposedly professional environment inevitably leads to women being ostracized or alienated. The majority who disagree get labelled as boring or buzzkills and are excluded from the group, while the minority who go along are held up as examples to make them feel bad (we're not misogynistic! look!) like you pointed out.
She has made commits to the Linux kernel that have been merged and she loves hentai and porn but is no longer in tech because she literally makes more money being a cam girl and it's way more fun.
Tldr: stop trying to white knight. It's neither warranted nor welcome.
I'd argue this proves my point though. Your fiance is someone who conformed to the existing male dominated culture and succeeded despite the structural roadblocks in place. But the other 50% of women who may have otherwise made a career in this industry were driven out.
[Citation Needed]
And why didn't they apply? Software is one of the best careers in the world. Maybe they are getting lost along the way earlier in the pipeline because tech is pseudonomyous with the the kind of people who like to talk about things like DeepCreamPy. Maybe they walk into that freshman CS class and see 30 other dudes that fit this profile and give them creepy unwanted attention and they drop it and switch to biology. There's a serious "dudes club" problem with this industry and this just feels like an expression of that.
In theory it is. In practice...well, let's ask game developers for example. Or other groups who end up with a real-world job they end up hating.
> Maybe they are getting lost along the way earlier in the pipeline
Quite likely.
> because tech is pseudonomyous with the the kind of people who like to talk about things like DeepCreamPy. Maybe they walk into that freshman CS class and see 30 other dudes that fit this profile and give them creepy unwanted attention and they drop it and switch to biology.
Yeah, that's not happening. First, because for example in my country there's no such thing as "switching to biology", so you can't lose them this way. And yet, there's something like 7% of women in my country's informatics-related university programmes. Furthermore, those 7% are 7% of applicants, so there's no "maybe they [walked] into that freshman CS class" because those 7% haven't even seen that freshman class yet. So while you're quite likely correct in that "they are getting lost along the way earlier in the pipeline", it's definitely WAY earlier than you postulate in at least some quite large populations in the world.
I have admin access to our pipeline. They don't apply. The ratio is 50:1 or so.
> Maybe they walk into that freshman CS class and see 30 other dudes that fit this profile and give them creepy unwanted attention and they drop it and switch to biology.
And? What's your point here?
> There's a serious "dudes club" problem with this industry and this just feels like an expression of that.
Python library made to remove censorship from cartoons is an expression of some abstract made-up problem, do you even hear yourself?