Posts tagged ‘male privilege’

Tim Chevalier has just moved over the Male Programmer Privilege Checklist to the Geek Feminism wiki so that everyone can maintain it.

In anticipation of a December/January slowdown, I’m reposting some of my writing from 2010, for the benefit of new (and nostalgic!) readers. This piece originally appeared on the 4th October 2010. This is an Ask ...

Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, “They are afraid women will laugh at them.” When she asked a group of women why ...

This is cross-posted at Restructure! I demonstrated an aptitude for computers when I was a young girl, but I didn’t have home Internet access until I graduated from high school. I blame the Patriarchy, partly. ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question: This a “what should we do” question, but a fairly specific one. Recent discussions, particularly Restore meritocracy in CS using an obscure functional language , have left ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! Often, computer geeks who started programming at a young age brag about it, as it is a source of geeky prestige. However, most computer geeks are oblivious to ...