Dumb girls Ok, so I'm a member of an online community of female IT & computing professionals. Which is fine, but occasionally they go of on a tangent that I find entirely not worthwhile. Or just plain stupid.
For instance, the current campaign is to boycott a given company because of an ad they had printed somewhere... The ad has a picture of a fairly attractive woman, and said something like "Don't worry, our servers won't go down on you either". [I'll look for a link to it later, I know someone Digged it Edit: link.]. Now, I thought this was pretty funny when I saw it several days ago. The online community? not so much. People are selling stock, writing letters, complaining to NASA (who buys from this company), etc.
Exactly what is the deal? I understand why some people would be offended by the sexual reference, but why are women taking this as a dig on women in computing? What about it is offensive to women, in general?
Apparently there is a replacement for that ad now: http://bratgrrl.com/ljad.jpeg
I did a little googling and this is what i came up with.
Some women still worry they are viewed as objects. They feel this ad objectifies women and therefore it makes them feel even more insecure in their femininity, or something.
Disclaimer: I'm hopped up on nasal spray, decongestants, and anti-biotics... so the preceding may or may not make any sense at all.
# posted by Will : Wednesday, August 22, 2007 11:55:00 AM
right. So, I realize that women are touchy about a lot of things, being treated like and object is one of them (I don't which is more maddening, being treated like a slab of meat, or being treated like a very expensive and very fragile look-pretty).
However, I didn't see that ad as objectifying women. It seems to say more that women have a choice in the matter, and said woman chose not to be your toy.
But that just my take, and I tend to be a little weird when it comes to opinions and stuff like that.
# posted by Deedee : Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:16:00 PM
This is my brain..... in part, at least.
: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 11:55:00 AM
