I'm writing a article
 

For those who dont, I write a column in my local newspaper (check it out at www.hooksettbanner.com and then click on "Karolian on Computers".

Anyway,
I am writing an about how girls get into "Geekism". "Geekism" is a mostly male dominated world, but there are many girl geeks too. So if you are a girl and a geek, I would like to talk to you about it...

My aim handle is: Phatlinux14


Thanks!

Re: I'm writing a article
 

You'd be writing an article.

This sounds like one of those awful advertisements that run at commercial breaks during the Jenny Jones show.

Would I be considered a geek?

I dunno :P

Re: Re: I'm writing a article
 

Awww, M! You beat me to it!

Yikes. What's the purpose of this article?

- Katie

mel, do we actually have to answer this? :)

Yes yes you do :P

Well, if we really have to...

Yes, you're a geek. Perhaps a geek-in-traning, but a geek, nonetheless.

Be proud. Eventually, you might be lucky enough to turn into a pasty white skinned, glasses wearing male with no social life, and a healthy aversion to sunlight.

/me exhibits shifty eyes, then backs slowly away from the conversation...

mel, jim's more or less right, except for the "male" part :p. that wouldn't be any good now, would it :).

How I got into being a geek: I had role models. Both of my parents went to college in science fields, my dad going on to become a M.D. I tended to enjoy math and science more then I enjoyed some of the other fields that I was studying. Basically coming from an atmosphere where being a 'geek' was not necessarily a bad thing helped a lot. Also active encouragement for me to follow what I liked, rather then bow to social pressure was a very important thing.
Strong as male geeks are, the pressures on female geeks is sometimes greater. In junior high and high school I often ran into the opinion that female geeks couldnt be feminine, or were not "womanly" because of their interests by both the general population of the school and the male geeks of the school. This was not always true, but it was something that was difficult to fight.
Sometimes the most telling answer is why somebody who loves technology, or science or math will ignore that, and will act like a socialite or something that they are not, just to fit in. The people who do well in the subject, and for all purposes show interest in it and yet they ignore the subject. For both men and women this is a very telling thing about the pressures of being a geek in todays society.

Remember I can't reach full geekdom until you and ian train me more...

Um...I think I like being a girl...otherwise I wouldn't have all you wonderful geek boys...plus why would i wantto be you :P

Ian: I don't think it would be good in 14 years if i was male now would it :P

About the whole "male" thing... I was trying to make a blatant reference to myself...

I hope no one was direly offended by that...

A. Snodgrass so well said, soooo soo very well said, I must say that brings a tear to my eyes, OK not so much, but that really was very well said.

and Mr. v, you're just... yeah...(and you ARE pasty!:p )

and M.kass said I'm not considered a geek because I don't program and such, so that's the kind of 'definition' geek he wants for his aritical.
i don't think geeks have to just into computers,
but thats me-

I love geek guys, they are soo the coolest and I don't really see any being all reclusive and such, and if they are that's even better
but I don't think that u've gotta be a guy,
because that just puts the notion back that girls can't be geek.

And the surroundings for me to be my definition of a geek, would be because I've always been considered a boyish- so I've always been surrounded by guys, and that's just the way things flowed, and I've always gotten along with guy sooo much better then girls, so I guess then I never got into the 'girlie' faze...

Well, what will be will be, and just as an ending note, the term 'geek' is not a bad thing. It simply means you're a step ahead of the rest in you life (moral boost), and you can still be sociable and ... acceptable to all genders, weather you're pasty or not
:D
...
or that's just me speaking