Tech women of the farms: Were you harassed in school? -

[ChuckSlaughter]

So I've had a few defining moments in my life where I was around some sort of "Oppressed Individual" and saw the random shit people sometimes flip them firsthand and it surprised me.

Recently someone interviewed Patrica Torvalds:

My daughter had one high school programming class—Visual Basic. She was the only girl in her class, and she ended up getting harassed and having a miserable experience. What was your experience like?

My high school began offering computer science classes my senior year, and I took Visual Basic as well! The class wasn't bad, but I was definitely one of three or four girls in the class of 20 or so students. Other computing classes seemed to have similar gender breakdowns. However, my high school was extremely small and the teacher was supportive of inclusivity in tech, so there was no harassment that I noticed

So the interviewer claims she was harassed in VB class and Patrica flatly states she never experienced this. I'm trying to imagine a guy in a VB class going out of his way to bother other students. I just can't see it. Personally I'd be pissed if someone ran off maybe the only woman I interact with all day.

So has it happened to you? I can imagine getting excluded from things, it happens when someone is different from the rest of the group. But intentional overt harassment?

 

[ES 148]

I'm harassed for my fucking gay hairstyle but nobody seems to care about gender-specific stuff. Same for the other 2 girls, although they kind of just huddle in the corner giggling.

 

[Hui]

I'm harassed for my fucking gay hairstyle but nobody seems to care about gender-specific stuff. Same for the other 2 girls, although they kind of just huddle in the corner giggling.

You are a man

He said Tech women.

 

[chunkygoth]

No, everyone treated me like another student. There was one girl in my class who was always going on about being a woman in tech but she was not very good at programming.

However, back in my Tinder days, someone once messaged me and said "I think it's so brave that you're a woman studying computer science" and I about died laughing.

EDIT: I'm willing to bet Patricia didn't have a bad experience in programming class because she's not bad at programming.

 

[JB 236]

When I was in school a lot of the other girls would bully me for my knowledge on computing they would regularly throw pennies at me through the open windows that backed up on the school playing field. As I was the only female in computing classes, I would get a lot of attention and beta orbiters would follow me thinking that because I was not very good looking and I was not the best in class, I would sleep with them for knowledge and help with class.

Now I own my own tech company with strong ties in India, I managed to get lots of surgery to actually look good and I am sleeping with good looking men on the regular, while those Betas who thought that they could use me for sex are stuck either jobless, they are game devs or in one case, dead.

 

[ES 148]

When I was in school a lot of the other girls would bully me for my knowledge on computing they would regularly throw pennies at me through the open windows that backed up on the school playing field. As I was the only female in computing classes, I would get a lot of attention and beta orbiters would follow me thinking that because I was not very good looking and I was not the best in class, I would sleep with them for knowledge and help with class.

Now I own my own tech company with strong ties in India, I managed to get lots of surgery to actually look good and I am sleeping with good looking men on the regular, while those Betas who thought that they could use me for sex are stuck either jobless, they are game devs or in one case, dead.

It's this kind of story that really inspires women in the workplace

 

[Jarilo182]

Nope, not in tech school or any STEM-related class.

However, I once had someone follow me to my car during community college. I reported the incident to campus security and they couldn't even find a student matching his description.

EDIT: lol I was bullied bad in grade school too because of :autism:, but not sexual harassment or anything like that

 

[Eryngium]

I said yes because I’m a guy but I have the right to identify as a girl and what I perceive to be the “tech field” and “sexual harassment”

 

[SakuraRose]

Nope, not in the slightest, and this was back in the early/mid 1990s (because I'm an oldfag) when things were rather less "progressive" than they are today.

It was a little different when I entered the workplace in the late 90s, but that was more that people underestimated me purely for being female.

All the nerds I studied with were complete reclusive D&D fans that didn't know how to talk to a woman even if they really wanted to, let alone meter out harassment.

 

[drtoboggan]

I have a feeling the harassment is overblown by inept women

 

[LofaSofa]

All Kiwi Women were harassed in school because all Kiwi Women are either ugly, fat, or a troon.

 

[felicity]

I said yes based mostly on a skeevy neckbeard guy I encountered in my third year that would literally make a beeline for me whenever we were in the same room; he was more clueless and :autism: than malicious, but he did freak me out one time when he said he'd seen me walking home and knew where I lived. I was probably overreacting but that street was dark af at night, a female friend overheard him saying it and offered to walk me home that day. It got to the point where I'd duck behind a friend whenever I saw him

There were other times that don't really count due to me accidentally leading the poor guys on due to me, naive young lesbian, thinking they just wanted to be friends and chill

 

[Nazi vegeta]

What if it is the girls who harassed me?

 

[ES 148]

What if it is the girls who harassed me?

Then you are the girls.

 

[The Shadow]

I'm a dude and my HS comp sci teacher gave me an uncomfortable uninvited shoulder rub once. Scared me out of the field.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

In pole dancing class...yes. That's a technical skill.

 

[Hui]

I said yes because I’m a guy but I have the right to identify as a girl and what I perceive to be the “tech field” and “sexual harassment”

We are all guys here

even the ones that have vaginas

 

[SakuraRose]

We are all guys here

even the ones that have vaginas

Yep, we're just here, with our...guy-ginas? Va-guy-nas?

:deviant:

 

[NIGGO KILLA]

I once bashed a womans head in with a computer monitor

is that relevant to the conversation?

 

[Rand /pol/]

I harass women daily