Monday, November 18, 2013

Coder and Coderess

DotA... LoL... WoW...  No I'm not making up words, laughing out loud or astonished with my own intelligence.  I'm talking about things that no girl has ever heard of, nor will she hear of in this post (you're going to have to look it up girls).  The reason every girl who has read to this point is googling right now is the same reasons there are a total of two girls in my five computer science classes.  When I was 17 I thought it was cool how I, as master chief, could slide-snipe someone across the beach of Zanzibar and stick a converging Warthog all as I listened to the Killers in the comfy armchair of my bedroom.  In this setting, unknown to me, the desire to be a coder was born.  Girls don't have that seed planted because they are doing responsible things when they are 17.  My wife was in Phoenix getting straight A's and prepping for the academic decathlon while I was in Sandy having system-link-Dr-Pepper-all-nighters with my friends.  I wish it weren't true, but it is.  There's a direct correlation between hero skins and lines of Java written.
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  1. mdebaltzoNovember 19, 2013 at 8:22 AM

    I thought this was rather general and full of traditional stereotypes. I do believe that stereotypes exist for a reason, although I don't know if it is fair to put it in the 'Girls do/don't' phrasing that you used.

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    1. UnknownNovember 19, 2013 at 11:20 AM

      I thought overemphasizing the stereotypes would make it more interesting. I guess it came off too strong.

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  2. RubenNovember 19, 2013 at 10:46 AM

    While I don't have a problem being sexist when its called for, but in the first part of this post, you probably could use less blanket statements. Maybe less "no girl has ever heard" and maybe more "few women have heard". But I do mostly agree with the last two thirds.

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    1. UnknownNovember 19, 2013 at 11:22 AM

      I thought the stronger statement would draw the reader in more. I understand that some have, I just thought there would be more bang with over-generalizations.

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  3. MikeNovember 19, 2013 at 11:25 AM

    Riot Games did some surveys and released an infographic (http://majorleagueoflegends.s3.amazonaws.com/lol_infographic.png) on the results. While it is true that the vast majority of LoL players are male (more than 90%) that still leaves a portion that are female. And because LoL gets at least 32 million active players a month, that puts around 3.2 million of those players as female. which is nothing to sneeze at. Your generalities are a bit banal.

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