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?
This is my brain..... in part, at least.
