It seems like different flavors of misogyny to me. (Speaking as someone who knows nothing of Hollywood but that which comes out of it, and whose experience in the greater tech world has been the better part of a Computer Information Systems degree, interacting with IT as a woman employed in a non-technical job, interacting with the in-house developers of an in-house web-app as a theoretically non-technical end-user, interacting with in-house geeks as the creator of a database using *wince* Access [it was what I had to hand], serving as volunteer tech support on LJ, serving as cat-herder on suggestions, working front line tech support for a registrar with bells whistles email and hosting, and currently serving as volunteer tech support/spamwrangler/cheerleader for Dreamwidth...) Tech world, the good folks don't care if you're an alien blue poodle as long as you can do the job -- but part of doing the job is getting taken seriously, and part of getting taken seriously involves some hazing in very pointedly socially masculine fashions.
I gather from the output that Hollywood doesn't seem to care whether you have a brain or not, or if your personal habits include *sleeping with* alien blue poodles, as long as you have the right look or can be made to have the right look, and can act.
Neither of these strike me as particularly healthy things for humans, and even less so women and other classes vulnerable to exploitation.
The misogyny in the tech world thing came up for me yet again this morning because of something mentioned in IRC, and I went Googling around after something or other, and I ran smack into some big wheel named Randal making an ass of himself in the comments, which I shouldn't have read. The phrase "yelled at for breaking the build" came up, in context of people who can't take the heat and run away, and people who stick around and become better coders through trial by fire. And it's over a year later, and I'm looking at a sudden plethora of wonderful devs, and it strikes me that Mr. S seemingly doesn't know the difference between a code review and verbal abuse, and apparently has linked the two, so that if your code's broken, you get berated for it like a kid who's just smashed the cookie jar in an attempt to snag a few. Why? Because it's always been that way. It builds character. And yet I'm staring at this channelful of strong spirited devs who've never had a harsh word from the leads in their lives, just "That didn't work; see here and here and here; how do you propose to fix it?" and half of them were just babydevs or not even that the same time last year. Open source is not boot camp.
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I gather from the output that Hollywood doesn't seem to care whether you have a brain or not, or if your personal habits include *sleeping with* alien blue poodles, as long as you have the right look or can be made to have the right look, and can act.
Neither of these strike me as particularly healthy things for humans, and even less so women and other classes vulnerable to exploitation.
The misogyny in the tech world thing came up for me yet again this morning because of something mentioned in IRC, and I went Googling around after something or other, and I ran smack into some big wheel named Randal making an ass of himself in the comments, which I shouldn't have read. The phrase "yelled at for breaking the build" came up, in context of people who can't take the heat and run away, and people who stick around and become better coders through trial by fire. And it's over a year later, and I'm looking at a sudden plethora of wonderful devs, and it strikes me that Mr. S seemingly doesn't know the difference between a code review and verbal abuse, and apparently has linked the two, so that if your code's broken, you get berated for it like a kid who's just smashed the cookie jar in an attempt to snag a few. Why? Because it's always been that way. It builds character. And yet I'm staring at this channelful of strong spirited devs who've never had a harsh word from the leads in their lives, just "That didn't work; see here and here and here; how do you propose to fix it?" and half of them were just babydevs or not even that the same time last year. Open source is not boot camp.