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Hrm. That got me thinking and this could be an important point.

I think about all the women that I grew up with in today’s feminist world, and the one thing I noticed was their refusal to make mistakes and learn. You can’t be a good programmer or anything without screwing up a lot first.

I’m going to use hacky sack as a specific example, however this represents many encounters with women women regarding many things perfectly.

I’m awesome at hacky sack today, but you can bet your ass I looked like a buffoon the first time I tried it. Much practice and embarrassment later I became skilled. I remember trying to teach my wife how to play once, and after getting her to try once(and fail, like everyone else did their first time) she decided that “Hacky sack is stupid!”

Backed into a corner believing it is stupid, she never even considered picking up the sack and practicing with it alone.

When learning hacky sack, I had a “mentor” named Joel. He spent lots of time with me critiquing my techniques and showing me various stalls and he enjoyed it as much as I appreciated it. I clearly could not of learned anything from him if I made it up in my mind that I was just as good as him and his equal. I knew my place, he was superior to me. Later on I became considered better than him and I was teaching him stuff, but I earned that and it didn’t require a lobby group forcing congress to pass some stupid law.

If a feminist doesn’t know her place, how can she ever hope to learn anything from anybody?

You bring up Grace Hopper who wrote the first compiler ever, “it was her idea that programs could be written in a language that was close to English rather than in machine code or in languages close to machine code, such as the assemblers of the time. It is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on her philosophy.”

She invented the term “bug”. You don’t think she screwed up a bunch writing all that? She became a rear admiral in the navy, you think she got there by not knowing her place?

A lot of feminist seem to think that men like me are “sexist” and even have words like “misogynist” that they use. That’s not really true at all. Feminist seem to think we were abused or treated badly by our mothers, and that’s not true at all. My mom was a saint. After staying at home and raising me, my mom started her own very profitable chain of retail stores from scratch. Lots of computers and software keeps her business running, and she knows how to run it all and keep it going by herself because she listened when I told her what to do. She didn’t flip out and throw a hissy fit when I showed her something that she did wrong either.

I don’t dislike women or even hate them, i’m just disapointed and flustrated with today’s batch. You can’t treat them like anything but a sex object without offending them.

Quote from Rusender

they can both be smart if they wanted to. But women are lots of times really dumb.

Quote from dark_heart

Dude, women arn't dumb! I would see myself as stuborn, not dumb.