Are there any female computer geeks out there?
It seems as if only men are interested in computers and games
Friday, September 1, 2006 by Life is a Game | Discussion: Personal Computing
A question that I often ask myself. I didn't seem to meet any female computer/games geek out there so I'm asking does she/them exist in the real world or only she/they are only a fantasy. For example when my coworker got a new computer (P4 2.4 Ghz, 1024 MB memory) I asked her if it's faster then the old one (P3 600 Mhz, 256 MB memory) she replied: "I didn't notice any difference". The second example is I just started with playing the new Heroes of Might and Magic V and when I asked another my friend what she thinks about it when she was watching me playing it she said: "Colors are nice". How about this example. Another coworker got an OS upgrade from win2000 to winXP and she didn't even notice that I upgraded her OS?!
OK I admit those examples are a 'bit' extreme but it made me thinking about females and computers. Is it that computers are made by male for male that there are a lot more male computer geeks out there or is it just that generally females are not that attracted by technology. Shouldn't someone make computers and games that would appeal more to female users.
Please if they are any female computer geeks out there reply to this article just that I will know that female computer geeks exist in the real world as well and not just in my fantasies. Also can you write what kind of computers and games do you like. Me for example like laptops with big screens 17"-20" and good speakers. The most I like playing turn-based strategies (Civilization and Heroes of Might & Magic) and Sci-Fi RPGs (Star Wars: Knights of Old Republic) and NBA Live series.
Comments much appreciated.
OK I admit those examples are a 'bit' extreme but it made me thinking about females and computers. Is it that computers are made by male for male that there are a lot more male computer geeks out there or is it just that generally females are not that attracted by technology. Shouldn't someone make computers and games that would appeal more to female users.
Please if they are any female computer geeks out there reply to this article just that I will know that female computer geeks exist in the real world as well and not just in my fantasies. Also can you write what kind of computers and games do you like. Me for example like laptops with big screens 17"-20" and good speakers. The most I like playing turn-based strategies (Civilization and Heroes of Might & Magic) and Sci-Fi RPGs (Star Wars: Knights of Old Republic) and NBA Live series.
Comments much appreciated.
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starkers
Reply #82 Tuesday, September 19, 2006 8:43 AM
Ha, and when you find you're lacking the coordination, have the clumsiest fingers and keep dropping stitches left, right and centre, you'll give the wife the money to go out and buy 'em instead....trust me Believe me, I gave it my best shot (about two or three rows in about four or five hours), but common sense prevailed and I/we patronised a baby boutique instead.
Yeah, me too....unless I want a good spanking (but that goes both ways)
What never ceases to amaze me, though, is the sensitive new age guy who'll cook, clean and wash, etc....you know, the do anything for the love of his life type of bloke, but when she asks him to slip down the store to purchase some female hygiene products, suddenly he's the macho mechanic type, who suddenly dives under the car and says: "Sorry love, just found a real bad transmission problem, you'll have to go get them yourself"
You can spot this type of bloke in the supermarket, he's the one prowling up and down the relevant aisle, picking up and examining every product except the one he's there for....and if he doesn't have/find a female accomplice to do the deed for him, he waits until right on closing time and hopes the clerk is too busy tallying the till to notice him.
Personally, I never got embarrassed...that was until they switched from paper to plastic bags....found it too hard to breath in them. Pity there was no on-line shopping back in those days....
Reply #82 Tuesday, September 19, 2006 8:43 AM
I do all the above as well... will see about knitting baby clothes when I get one |
Ha, and when you find you're lacking the coordination, have the clumsiest fingers and keep dropping stitches left, right and centre, you'll give the wife the money to go out and buy 'em instead....trust me Believe me, I gave it my best shot (about two or three rows in about four or five hours), but common sense prevailed and I/we patronised a baby boutique instead.
| I do as I am asked/told/hinted towards. |
Yeah, me too....unless I want a good spanking (but that goes both ways)
What never ceases to amaze me, though, is the sensitive new age guy who'll cook, clean and wash, etc....you know, the do anything for the love of his life type of bloke, but when she asks him to slip down the store to purchase some female hygiene products, suddenly he's the macho mechanic type, who suddenly dives under the car and says: "Sorry love, just found a real bad transmission problem, you'll have to go get them yourself"
You can spot this type of bloke in the supermarket, he's the one prowling up and down the relevant aisle, picking up and examining every product except the one he's there for....and if he doesn't have/find a female accomplice to do the deed for him, he waits until right on closing time and hopes the clerk is too busy tallying the till to notice him.
Personally, I never got embarrassed...that was until they switched from paper to plastic bags....found it too hard to breath in them. Pity there was no on-line shopping back in those days....
seldomseen
Reply #83 Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:11 PM
Reply #83 Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:11 PM
Single dad. We do it all. 
Try shopping in the "Incontinence" aisle for real humility
...disposable diapers for old-timers.
Try shopping in the "Incontinence" aisle for real humility
...disposable diapers for old-timers.
starkers
Reply #84 Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:02 PM
I was a single dad...first wife decided motherhood wasn't for her after the birth of our second child and took off, leaving me holding the baby, literally. My daughter was born 3 months premature and weighed just 2lb 11 oz....was in a humidicrib for the first two months of her life and I took her home a month afterwards. Yeah, so I know all about being a single dad, had a four year old son at the time as well, and raised them practically on my own....had a lady friend for a while but motherhood wasn't for her either.
Did that as well! My mother asked me to assist her in taking my father out of a nursing home that was mistreating him, so I left my current family for 11 months to help her care for him at home. It wasn't the easiest of times, but I was able to share some wonderful, as well as embarrassing times with my father before he died. Apart from the incontinence pad shopping, I had other moments when I wished that I had a paper bag to cover my face. Dad suffered with vascular disease related dementia and would sometimes say and/or do the funniest of things in public which quite often made me feel like I had a red face all the way down to my toes....but I wouldn't have missed a single moment of it for the world. What was embarrassing then are now cherished memories of a sweet man who returned to his childhood innocence and enjoyed life until he quietly passed away in his sleep. Fortunately, dad's dementia made him oblivious to the fact he was ill, and he was a tough old nut to go with it, so there was no pain or distress and he peacefully slipped away, for which I'm truly thankful.
So yeah, for two thirds of my life, I've been both mother and father, chief cook and bottle washer, a nurse and diaper changer, often a father confessor, so maybe my next challenge could be just kickin' back and chilling out for a while....if the wife says it's okay.
Reply #84 Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:02 PM
| Single dad. We do it all. |
I was a single dad...first wife decided motherhood wasn't for her after the birth of our second child and took off, leaving me holding the baby, literally. My daughter was born 3 months premature and weighed just 2lb 11 oz....was in a humidicrib for the first two months of her life and I took her home a month afterwards. Yeah, so I know all about being a single dad, had a four year old son at the time as well, and raised them practically on my own....had a lady friend for a while but motherhood wasn't for her either.
| Try shopping in the "Incontinence" aisle |
Did that as well! My mother asked me to assist her in taking my father out of a nursing home that was mistreating him, so I left my current family for 11 months to help her care for him at home. It wasn't the easiest of times, but I was able to share some wonderful, as well as embarrassing times with my father before he died. Apart from the incontinence pad shopping, I had other moments when I wished that I had a paper bag to cover my face. Dad suffered with vascular disease related dementia and would sometimes say and/or do the funniest of things in public which quite often made me feel like I had a red face all the way down to my toes....but I wouldn't have missed a single moment of it for the world. What was embarrassing then are now cherished memories of a sweet man who returned to his childhood innocence and enjoyed life until he quietly passed away in his sleep. Fortunately, dad's dementia made him oblivious to the fact he was ill, and he was a tough old nut to go with it, so there was no pain or distress and he peacefully slipped away, for which I'm truly thankful.
So yeah, for two thirds of my life, I've been both mother and father, chief cook and bottle washer, a nurse and diaper changer, often a father confessor, so maybe my next challenge could be just kickin' back and chilling out for a while....if the wife says it's okay.
Miss_Quinn
Reply #85 Thursday, September 21, 2006 5:01 PM
Reply #85 Thursday, September 21, 2006 5:01 PM
hey. i just thought id post a reply, because i am a total geek. i love computers, any os.. especially linux.. (mandrake!).. hmm.. i am a total gamer... css, d&d games.. so i guess im not the only one.. that sucks. haha. and i am told i am "smokin". hmm yupp. that would be all. i 
geeks...
m. kay
geeks...m. kay
_footsie_
Reply #86 Thursday, September 21, 2006 6:15 PM
Reply #86 Thursday, September 21, 2006 6:15 PM
I'm not much for gaming on accounta the arthritis......typing...for me.....everytime I do it without totally screwing up.......is paramount to winning an olympic medal
I try to think logically....but you dang kids got it waaaaaaay over me......I'm more into wandering around in lala land......taking pictures of pretty stuff and thinking I'm a contender.....
games????????? naw.....too old too slow too stiff
wish I could?
you betcha
gal?????? YES........and I still remember the first time somebody at the corner store called me ma'am instead of miss
dang it all anyway lol
yer the hope of the future
you know that, don't you?
footsie
I try to think logically....but you dang kids got it waaaaaaay over me......I'm more into wandering around in lala land......taking pictures of pretty stuff and thinking I'm a contender.....
games????????? naw.....too old too slow too stiff
wish I could?
you betcha
gal?????? YES........and I still remember the first time somebody at the corner store called me ma'am instead of miss
dang it all anyway lol
yer the hope of the future
you know that, don't you?
footsie
pepsitrev
Reply #87 Friday, September 22, 2006 1:57 PM 
i would be happy to just find a girl who enjoys using the computer and has fun doing it
Reply #87 Friday, September 22, 2006 1:57 PM
i would be happy to just find a girl who enjoys using the computer and has fun doing it
pepsitrev
Reply #88 Friday, September 22, 2006 1:59 PM well said footsie 
i too enjoy just surfing and having fun on the puter games are for the younger generation these days
Reply #88 Friday, September 22, 2006 1:59 PM
well said footsie 
i too enjoy just surfing and having fun on the puter games are for the younger generation these days
eddy_chan
Reply #89 Saturday, September 23, 2006 6:13 PM
Reply #89 Saturday, September 23, 2006 6:13 PM
Me? (Oh, and though my nickname says "eddy", I am a female) Lol Got dual screens hooked up to my computer, install my own RAM and cards whenever I need to. Run PC health checks every so often (especially now that my computer has been acting up..)
And let's just say I enjoy modifying EVERYTHING. MSN has been modded with extensions like crazy, plus I got all the stuff like iconpackager, windowblinds, and some program called Fly A Kite OSX (makes a windows system have a GUI resembling the Mac OS X).
And let's just say I enjoy modifying EVERYTHING. MSN has been modded with extensions like crazy, plus I got all the stuff like iconpackager, windowblinds, and some program called Fly A Kite OSX (makes a windows system have a GUI resembling the Mac OS X).
seldomseen
Reply #90 Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:32 PM
lol. I get to do that after I drop the kids off at school...
Reply #90 Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:32 PM
| just kickin' back and chilling out for a while.... |
lol. I get to do that after I drop the kids off at school...
starkers
Reply #91 Wednesday, September 27, 2006 9:53 AM
That's when being a grandparent seems/feels so much better....no 5 days a week trips to and from school, and being able to hand 'em back when your arms get tired is a real blessing.
Reply #91 Wednesday, September 27, 2006 9:53 AM
| lol. I get to do that after I drop the kids off at school... |
That's when being a grandparent seems/feels so much better....no 5 days a week trips to and from school, and being able to hand 'em back when your arms get tired is a real blessing.
kochels
Reply #92 Sunday, October 29, 2006 6:04 AM
Reply #92 Sunday, October 29, 2006 6:04 AM
hmm i m a female and i m very interested in comp. everyone calls me the comp savvy. I do read mag on games and also comps. My fav games are mainly first or 2rd person shooter. 
Some of my fav games are counter strike, max payne, godfather and GTA.Sounds bit boysish to u?
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Reply #81 Monday, September 18, 2006 1:11 PM
I guess that makes me pretty successful.