lulzfish said:
I cannot imagine.
Somebody should Google this, and find out why it's critical to the future of Computer Science that we get more female members.
I honestly do not know, other than the obvious "horny teenager" answer: "Because it would be hot"
That's not a good reason at all.
Men and women tend to act and treat each other differently. My male friends are different from my female friends and I feel better off having both kinds because there are ways I can relate to one set that I can't relate to the other. These ways might not be that important on a site like this but it can be pretty subtle.. having a good gender mix does more to make a community diverse and interesting.
That, and it's not actually unheard of for romantic relationships to start online. Shocking, I know, but a lot of relationships start because of common interests and you're going to be more likely to find that in a place for people with those interests. Sure, there are a lot of problems/challenges, but it's not like no one here ends up living near anyone else. Even if you can't end up dating anyone online it's still good to know how to interact with the opposite gender for this purpose.
About nature vs nurture and female computer scientists: at my grad department there were probably about as many females who were Indian or Chinese as there were males, and very few amongst those who weren't. What does that tell you?
Anyone who thinks that this is an issue limited to just this site is kidding themselves. Welcome to the western world.
The best programmers are lazy. That's why they write the best code. (code that requires minimal maintenance, runs the most efficiently, etc...) Technically many more programmers are lazy, but only the best pull it off so well.
As such, they prefer their women to come to them: much more efficient that way, and if you already share a known common interest (ie, programming) then it cuts the "getting to know you" phase of dating in half! Finally, intellectual challenge: the best programmers see development as a puzzle, a mental exercise, and are attracted to a mate that can match them step for step.
I don't know if you're being serious or not, but I wouldn't say programmers are typically lazy. They're more likely to be introverted and not especially forward instead. Western society expects men to take the first initiative with women, and to do that they have to have a lot of confidence and basically compete with more outgoing men.
No we shouldn't close this thread I think it's great that you guys are discussing it. You can't fight ignorance by cutting it off.
For one Women have been proven to have more spacial reasoning then men.
Let's name some game that have been mostly spearheaded by Women.
I can name a few:
Skies of Arcadia
Valkyria Chronicles
Assassin's Creed
River Raid
Phantesy Star
Every Game that came from Koei (probably easier to say first Dynasty warriors series-- she's one tough CEO from what I hear)
BIOSHOCK (the are SO MANY women involved in making this game, and it's sequel in all fronts)
God of War
There is literally thousands more--this is where you come in. I dare you, I double dog dare you....
Why is it that when someone takes offense to talk about women being worse at something they mention women being better at something? Way to fight generalizations with generalizations. Gender just sets trends, any given person can be totally outside them.
Certainly there are women working in the gaming industry. But when you compare it to the number of men... on the other hand, I do think that the divide in the professional world isn't
quite as bad as it is in social circles like this one, for some reason. Maybe female programmers and gamers don't like hanging around us unless they're paid to do so.
So how many can we all list? Probably not a whole lot, because most of us don't even know who made most games, much less their gender.
