Not to mention the mocking most of us had to endure from the cool kids. I was systematically bullied, because of being a geek, who loved tech.
In which case, it would certainly be nice to see more sensitive people of either gender encouraged to take up the subjects they are truly interested in. There's a pervasive culture of social shaming of people who don't fit the norm. Will it ever go away as a whole, or is it a unchangeable component of society?
There is a reason why less women than men are going into tech, but I don't want to elaborate on that, since I am going to be downvoted into oblivion(and no, it's not intelligence).