Misogyny and the Marketing Chick
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However, I have not yet encountered the stereotype that marketing is where women in tech end up, that marketing is full of women, or that women in marketing are inferior to men in marketing. I have met quite a few engineers and tech-industry marketers, and in my experience at least, the programmers are a more gender-balanced group than the marketers. The marketers in tech that I've met have been mostly male. And all the snake-oil salespeople I've met so far have been male. Maybe this isn't true globally; I'm just relating my anecdotal experience.
This is not to discount the author's perceptions. I take it she has encountered this sort of attitude before. If so, then she has every right to take issue with it. And the tech world does have gender issues--whether we're talking subjectively about culture or objectively about numbers of male and female programmers. But I'm merely reporting that, in my little corner of the tech world, I haven't observed this stereotype.
This is the sort of painfully anti-male rhetoric that makes actual feminists cringe. I don't identify as one of those -- I think it's more constructive just to make gender-neutral decisions and leave the activism to activists -- but those I know and have known cited people like this as a difficult obstacle to their cause: How are you supposed to engender trust, respect, and understanding, when the people who are most easily identified with your cause are irrational ragemongers?
Misogyny, misogynistic, misogynists. Repeat it long enough and maybe someone will start to feel bad. Don't give in to this crap; it's exactly the kind of prejudice it rails against, except what it's railing against isn't even the right thing, as instead of taking a realistic approach to real issues it has created a fictional monstrosity by blowing real issues out of proportion for the author's own gratification.
"The numbers for minority women are even more dismal. Hispanic women represent 1% of the high-tech workforce, and African-American women don't fare much better, at 3%. The better the jobs, the lower the proportions are of women and non-Asian minorities. Despite the diversity of the population of the region, Silicon Valley, which boasts the highest salaries among tech regions, fares much worse than the national numbers."
http://www.fastcolabs.com/3010423/the-geek-boy-irony-behind-...
To be sure, there are likely people who think this way. But after reading this article it's pretty clear that even if this were a prevalent stereotype (I haven't seen enough to think it's even close), this in particular is not a good reference for it.
Whoa. Hold off on the ad-hominem attack there. She's probably reading this and saying that is not cool.
Just because you don't like reading a (non-professional) attempt at deconstructing a prevalent (I know of it) stereotype and evaluating it's negative impacts, doesn't make it right to make comments like this.