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Yeah! Those sneaky women! All of em will con you and all us men into helping them. Sneaky deceitful women.</sarcasm>

And people wonder why women don't like male dominated tech events

I downvoted you because I think that during a discussion about how people (in this case women) learn, figuring out common ways that people (in this case women) seek help is a pretty valid concern.

Maybe men do similar things when they are confused, or maybe not. I don't know enough about education to comment, but attempting to would be off topic anyways.

It is fascinating how rapidly discussion descended from single anecdote into gender-wide generalizations (always negative, of course) and single possible reasons why everything is wrong with the world? Impossibility of maintaining reasonable discussion about this topic without such things invariably appearing almost immediately and descending the whole discussion into a blame-fest is depressing.

The dynamic is an important consideration, like it or not. Do you think a woman would play dumb, bat her eyelashes and flip her hair (embellishing) while asking for help if her instructor was a woman?

> [...] play dumb, bat her eyelashes and flip her hair [...]

The fact that you frame it in such a stereotypical way speaks volumes about the attitudes at work here.

I am inferring based on past experiences. I don't know for sure what happened, I freely admit that.

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