Girls Don’t Exist!
October 5th, 2007 by
desi
The way girls are viewed in the gaming world is about the closest I have seen to how women in development are seen. We simply don’t exist. I am often asked why there is a need for something like DevChix and I think the article “OMG Girlz Don’t Exist on teh Intarweb!!!!” by Whitney Butts describing what it is like for her to be a girl in the gaming world kind of explains it. Its slightly different for women in development but its not that far off. The reason for DevChix?? we (women) need to know there are others so that we don’t fall into the trap of believing that we aren’t here or that we don’t belong here and everyone else needs to get use to us being here. Its our way of talking over Ventrilo. There is power in numbers.
Thanks for the article Whitney.
October 7th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Oh, I loved this article. I loved the way she maintains all of the misspellings and semantic horrors of the boys she deals with. So true to life. She captured it all so well. Kudos.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Oh yeah, I see this a lot. There was a thread about it on Sitepoint today:
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=507796
Well, I’m a chick and a developer :)
October 9th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
[...] i’ve read a couple of great blog entries on this lately - particularly this one on devchix, which refers to a couple of others. [...]
October 11th, 2007 at 11:28 am
I wrote about this article and the larger issue of gender in tech on my blog just recently: http://brighter.net/2007/9/29/the-gender-gap
October 24th, 2007 at 8:09 am
[...] DevChix points out an older article on being a girl on the internet. [...]
January 9th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Nice article. Its kinda harsh though..